Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is man's earliest map, dating from almost 14,000 years ago Photo: EPA 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.
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Etching ping.
Well, it shows absolutely nothing to me, but I really am convinced that there were people before me in 1944.
Of course it was found in a cave. Real men don’t take maps with them when they travel.
With the speed that Obama is dismantling our nation and infrastructure (communications, banking, health, energy), we’ll soon be reduced to relying on such crude instruments ourselves.
Seriously, this is a very interesting post. Thanks. It gives me something else to think about besides the rotten state this nation is in.
Early GPS.
It took them 15 years to figure this out?
Latest translation:
TURN AHEAD!
TURN LEFT IN 240 CUBITS.
AFTER THE TURN, TAKE THE TRAIL!
YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR DESTINATION!
How do they know it wasn’t a fake? Were there any other etchings in the cave?
Or, stop and ask direction along the way.
Sounds like a metrosexual caveman’s pickup line: “Would you like to go back to my cave and see my etchings?”
Maybe it is a networking diagram posting that someone sent to the guy below.
http://www.radford.edu/~ibarland/Public/Humor/helpCaveman
It says “You are here.”
"I had the same image this AM in my oatmeal"
Directions to the Taco Bel
Seriously, bottom left ‘relief design’ looks like tepees or fences.
Good catch.
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.
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