How would a Neolithic man find out when the Spring Equinox?

Question

Doesn't know North South East and West, This is for school

Answer 1

Okay, lets say your a cave man living in a cave with the opening facing North. You notice that the sun shining through the opening of the cave casts a shadow on the floor. Each day the shadow moves a little, and the days are getting shorter while the nights are getting longer.
At one point, the shadow begins to go in the other direction. After a while you can tell that the days are getting longer. You tell everyone in the tribe to find a tall pointed stone and carefully mark the shadow each day. They all realize that at a certain time the days start getting longer. They celebrate and call that period The Return of Light.

Answer 2

It is actually pretty easy....

Since they had nothing to do (no Yahoo answers obviously) studying things around them took on more meaning.

It would not take long (a few years at most, whats a few years among friends) to discover that certain days of the year were really long and certain other days were miserably short.

All you need is the following;
Something in the ground that doesn't move (hmmmm got a big rock, will that big enough?)
A reason to pay attention to the seasons (farming)
A community that does not move all the time that would be depending on seasonal things

Answer 3

Wouldn't general directions have been before discovery back then? Then, in that case, they could call whichever direction they wanted North, South, East, or West, which would eventually lead to what we have today as directions.

Also, think about Stonehenge. It tells time almost perfectly.

Answer 4

Back when seasons where seasons. if one can see that the grass is getting greener,trees,shrubs are budding,