Posted on 08/06/2009 5:51:58 AM PDT by decimon
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is man's earliest map, dating from almost 14,000 years ago Photo: EPA
A stone tablet found in a cave in Abauntz in the Navarra region of northern Spain is believed to contain the earliest known representation of a landscape.
Engravings on the stone, which measures less than seven inches by five inches, and is less than an inch thick, appear to depict mountains, meandering rivers and areas of good foraging and hunting.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
It took 15 years to figure out how to spin the release to the public when they were least likely to pay attention.
Hey, that’s right there near the quite obvious “WWW” ~ now what ever could that mean?
So what do you think this is?
“Notice that the relief design is also found in the area designated schematic Ibex? A clue that the archaeologists havent the faintest what the map represents, or how it was made, and are once again making a fact fit a theory.”
You need a bigger monitor. The symbols are indicated in both areas as ibex.
Gee, they did have SUVs.
What’s really cool is that the notes on names and places are in English. Way to go, Cave Man
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lol!
Still, a really detailed map - for a bunch of supposed primative people in 12,000 BC - to make without any access to an overhead view, or surveying equip. or GPS. Just how did they make the representations accurate enough for them to follow? These are not simple scrachings on a rock wall. Simple scratchings would not be made like a modern relief map, which that one is, certainly not by a people who say “Ugh” a lot.
To paraphrase:
The deep past is not only stranger than we know, it is stranger that we can imagine.
Pretty impressive use of fonts for 14,000 years ago...
You betcha! They drive by rest stops to find a tree and they save time by spending three hours driving around to find cheaper gas. Put’er there, pal!
This map is obviously a fake. This map was made with the “sharp rock on rock” font, a font that was not in use 14,000 years ago and only came into being about 10,000 years ago. At the time this map was drawn the “sharp stick in the dirt” font was the only one in use. Clearly this is a forgery.
Early press briefing notes from Helen Thomas.
A map so simple, even a caveman could understand it.
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Thanks decimon and wildbill.In her Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. Myth, Religion, Archaeology, Mary Settegast reproduces a table which shows four runic character sets; a is Upper Paleolithic (found among the cave paintings), b is Indus Valley script, c is Greek (western branch), and d is the Scandinavian runic alphabet.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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Nice.
Cool - yeah, but where is the "You Are Here."
Great.
Where’s the Exxon station that I’m supposed to make a left at?
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