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World's oldest map: Spanish cave has landscape from 14,000 years ago
Telegraph ^ | Aug. 6, 2009 | Fiona Govan

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 ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: archaeology; cave; caves; epigraphyandlanguage; fauxiantrolls; godsgravesglyphs; history; marysettegast; oldearthspeculation; platoprehistorian; provetheage; spelunkers; spelunking
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To: smokingfrog

It took 15 years to figure out how to spin the release to the public when they were least likely to pay attention.


21 posted on 08/06/2009 6:29:21 AM PDT by PIF
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To: PIF

Hey, that’s right there near the quite obvious “WWW” ~ now what ever could that mean?


22 posted on 08/06/2009 6:35:14 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: PIF

So what do you think this is?


23 posted on 08/06/2009 6:35:19 AM PDT by silverleaf (If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
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To: PIF

“Notice that the “relief design” is also found in the area designated “schematic Ibex”? A clue that the “archaeologists” haven’t 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.


24 posted on 08/06/2009 6:52:44 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Report to the Unification Board.)
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To: new cruelty

Gee, they did have SUVs.


25 posted on 08/06/2009 6:58:28 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon; SunkenCiv

What’s really cool is that the notes on names and places are in English. Way to go, Cave Man


26 posted on 08/06/2009 6:59:31 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: Kirkwood

All donations gladly accepted :)


27 posted on 08/06/2009 7:19:58 AM PDT by PIF
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To: new cruelty

lol!


28 posted on 08/06/2009 7:27:59 AM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Kirkwood

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.


29 posted on 08/06/2009 7:30:06 AM PDT by PIF
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To: decimon

Pretty impressive use of fonts for 14,000 years ago...


30 posted on 08/06/2009 7:48:40 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: afraidfortherepublic
GPS = Game Proximity Stone
31 posted on 08/06/2009 7:51:43 AM PDT by 1ofmanyfree ((No jobs, licenses,mortgages,bank accounts or amnesty for any illegal alien criminals ! ))
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To: blam

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!


32 posted on 08/06/2009 8:10:10 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: decimon

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.


33 posted on 08/06/2009 8:40:37 AM PDT by calex59
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To: decimon

Early press briefing notes from Helen Thomas.


34 posted on 08/06/2009 8:45:21 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: decimon

A map so simple, even a caveman could understand it.


35 posted on 08/06/2009 9:10:32 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (BLOAT - Buy Lots Of Ammo Today!)
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36 posted on 08/06/2009 12:30:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: new cruelty

Nice.


37 posted on 08/06/2009 12:40:52 PM PDT by BJClinton (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: wildbill; decimon
What’s really cool is that the notes on names and places are in English. Way to go, Cave Man.

Cool - yeah, but where is the "You Are Here."

38 posted on 08/06/2009 12:48:56 PM PDT by JohnG45
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To: new cruelty

Great.


39 posted on 08/06/2009 12:49:09 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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To: PIF

Where’s the Exxon station that I’m supposed to make a left at?


40 posted on 08/06/2009 12:50:24 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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