Anthropology

in the last century, even discovering dark companion stars and I think one exoplanet.

The Egyptians were also great astronomers. So were the early Britons, although they seem to have been more concerned with the lunar progression than the stars.

The point is that the people of the last Ice Age don't seem to have been concerned with the sky, at all, and one would think they'd need to keep an eye on the constellations to know when it was time to move south for the winter. I've just found that odd, but I suppose their timekeeper was the series of plants that ripened and then withered, plus the movement of herding animals.