World's oldest map: Spanish cave has landscape from 14,000 years ago

Telegraph ^ | Aug. 6, 2009 | Fiona Govan

[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.

[Political Junkie Too]

All you need to add is the GEICO logo, and a caveman can operate it!

-PJ

[colorado tanker]

Hey, baby, wanna go over to my cave and see my etchings?

[bert]

The meaning of WWW is secret and important to the rites of the Order Of the Arrow, a society of Honor Campers BSA.

[PIF]

It was unintentionally omitted... sorry.

[SunkenCiv]

[WoofDog123]

The first thing that came to my mind was to wonder if the permanent features (e.g. hills) resembled anything in the immediate area, or if the features are too general and could resemble just about anything. Rivers would likely have moved over this period of time, and flora obviously would not be a guide for anything there today.

[colorado tanker]

LOL!

[PIF]

Did you ever see a piece which appeared some years back in Pravda or Izvestia called The Map of the Creator? Very interesting map - much the same detail plus symbols like Chinese but not. Was supposed to be a fragment of a larger map depicting the entire Earth as seen from orbit. Extreme detail preserved under a silica coating if I remember correctly. Cause quite a stir, but other than a phone-in conversation with the professor (he found and publicized it) at his university, nothing further appeared.

[Fresh Wind]

They found Fred Flintstone’s GPS?

[ApplegateRanch]

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

The kerning is a dead give away.

Also, if you examine the "\" part of the hashings on this etching to the same strokes of the large Siberian stone map, you'll notice that there is a micro-groove within the left-bottom edge of the main groove that indicates the same stylus was used for both.

You'll need a very high resolution monitor to make it out.

In any case, this map appears to be a Glyph-O-Shop forgery.

[Pharmboy]

No problema, amigo!

[PIF]

Forgot to add “the map of the creator” was made before the ice age began. It was broken up by advancing glaciers. Also the fragment appeared to show numerous miles long and miles high dams. All of which were removed by the ice and the subsequent major ground upheals when the ice melted. Food for thought.