Here it is. But I'm a little skeptical as to its antiquity.
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Posted on 01/01/2011 5:59:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A team of researchers from the Archaeological Survey of India has unearthed maps depicted on the roof of a cave in Karnataka (India) that date back to 1500-2000 BCE. What was once thought to be a megalithic burial site with just paintings of animals and humans, could be the proof of the cartographic skills of prehistoric Indians...
While paintings of animals such as cows, hunting scenes and human figurines are common across prehistoric settlements, only the Chikramapura village caves, also called Kadebagilu rock shelters, feature maps...
According to Keshava, the prehistoric man obtained a bird's eye view of an area by climbing a hillock and standing at a vantage point. He would then observe his settlement -- houses, pathways, waterbodies, etc. With these images in mind, he would paint them in his cave...
Deciphering the exact meaning of the paintings was not easy for the experts, but they found many similarities with the modern-day maps. The triangular marks used to represent hillocks on these maps are similar to the symbols used by surveyors. Furthermore, a narrow passage has been compared to the figure of a human being, while the ladder-like symbol indicates a pathway. It took Keshava and his team almost a year to confirm the findings.
(Excerpt) Read more at stonepages.com ...
"Common Era is also known as Christian Era and Current Era, with all three expressions abbreviated as CE (Christian Era is, however, also abbreviated AD, for Anno Domini).
Dates before the year 1 CE are indicated by the usage of BCE, short for "Before the Common Era", "Before the Christian Era", or "Before the Current Era". Both the BCE/CE and BC/AD notations are based on a sixth-century estimate for the year in which Jesus was conceived or born, with the common era designation originating among Christians in Europe at least as early as 1615 (at first in Latin)."
Here it is. But I'm a little skeptical as to its antiquity.
Antiquity interests me.
you’re a riot, Alice. heheh.
Many American cities have stone age cultures surrounding the modern financial districts.
“According to Keshava, the prehistoric man obtained a bird’s eye view of an area by climbing a hillock and standing at a vantage point. He would then observe his settlement — houses, pathways, waterbodies, etc. With these images in mind, he would paint them in his cave... “
Or...How could Pre-historic man have climbed a hill high enough to observe all these features? No, This map must have been made from observatons high above the land in an alien spaceship.” Erik Von Daniken.
A prehistoric treasure map painted on a cave in India by Kadeblagilubeard the Pirate-
Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2011 8:59:57 PM by SunkenShips
A team of researchers from the Underwater Archaeological Survey of India has unearthed maps depicted on the roof of a cave in Karnatakitall (India) that date back to 1500-2000 BCEI.[before common era of idiots]- What was once thought to be a megalithic burial site with just paintings of animals and humans and big X`s could be the proof of the cartographic skills of prehistoric Indian pirates....
While paintings of animals such as cows, hunting scenes, and human figure skaters are common across prehistoric settlements, only the Chikramaputrid village caves, also called Kadeblagilubeard rock homeless shelters, feature maps with poopdecks, cross and skullbones, BIG X`s on them and numbers showing distances in elephant steps to a mysterious even Larger ``X``...
Archeologists are quite puzzled as to what it all means...
Why do we never see any prehistoric cave painting price lists?
Why do we never see any prehistoric cave painting price of lists?
BC is what is used here in AMERICA, where FR is based (1 hr north of me) and where I’ve lived for the last fifty something years. Then comes along an emboldened wave of stinking commie rats, and now here in the USA you hear rat educated people SUDDENLY pushing BCE, when you didn’t hear it being used before. Go join em if you like. Call homosexuals “gay,” call men who mangle their bodies “women,” call abortion “choice,” call NAMBLA “love,” call good “evil” and evil “good”... and enjoy your party. But if you expect to converse with me then you’ll not pretend that 2011 represents something of your own (man’s) making without being called out.
And the last reference you want to use here on FR is Wiki unless it’s about a simple self evident subject. I couldn’t care less what’s in Wikipedia. I’ve lived here and I know from factual experience that Americans have traditionally used BC to express years Before Christ, and AD to express “Anno Domini,” which is Latin for “year of our Lord,” representing the number of years since... well, you guessed it.... the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
And, AD ~ Anno Domini ~ or Ad Domini ~ how do you know the fellows who invented AD didn't invent AD before they invented the latin words to 'splain it?
Neither are Biblical BTW.
More commonly is to say something like 3,500 years before present, or 3,500 years ago.
Abbreviations mean what we want them to mean.
What everybody is doing who is telling you how many years they estimate have passed since a certain event took place, or what radio carbon dating, or other process might be telling you, is that it's all pretty old ~ much more than yesterday, or last week.
You should be much more concerned when the Hindus come up with BK and don't mean "Burger King" ~ and that's definitely going to happen now that they've found Dwarka!
You do realize that this is a war of culture don’t you? It looks like you’ve chosen your side.
The onliest way you can keep a position in the Nomeklatura intact is to USE that position, so if there are new words around I'll invent them.
Now, quick, what does DOE mean? Is that Department of Energy, or Department of Education, or female deer or........ buncha' stuff.
Abbreviations and Initials are all same thing ~ works of man.
>>Jus’ me against ALL the Yahoos
Well then... Hope ya choke. See you and your Haaarvard buddies in the culture wars.
Look here, as far as I’m concerned you and the Harvard pukes are all on the same side. They want those abbreviations kept sacred. Frankly, I think abbreviations are just a POS.
You’re towing the God hating Harvard line. Judge a tree by its fruit.
“Do you think cave dwellers surrounded/shadowed civilization?
Many American cities have stone age cultures surrounding the modern financial districts.”
All Islamic countries have stone age cultures surrounding Europe and others.
Imagine? Even your supposed questions are insulting. BCE is Anti-theist dialect for "Before Common Era." And Anti-theism is for ignorant control freaks and wannabe emperors. Agnosticism is the only non-religion to which the intelligent ascribe.
How foolish of you. You are going to fall deeper and deeper into Satan's grip with that.
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