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Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe
BBC ^ | April 7, 2021 | unattributed

Posted on 04/10/2021 7:01:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

The 2m by 1.5m slab (5ft by 6.5ft), first uncovered in 1900, was found again in a cellar in a castle in France in 2014.

Archaeologists who studied patterns engraved on the 4,000-year-old stone say they believe the markings are a map of an area in western Brittany.

They say this makes the slab the oldest 3D map of a known area in Europe.

The piece of rock, known as the Saint-Bélec Slab, is believed to date from the early Bronze Age, between 1900 BC and 1650 BC.

It was first unearthed in 1900, during digs on an prehistoric burial ground in Finistère, western Brittany, by local archaeologist Paul du Chatellier.

The slab was apparently forgotten for over a century, stored for decades under a moat at Mr du Chatellier's home, the ChÂteau de Kernuz.

But researchers hunting for the slab found it in a cellar in 2014.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: bronzeage; france; godsgravesglyphs
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The slab was first discovered in Brittany in 1900.

The slab was first discovered in Brittany in 1900.

1 posted on 04/10/2021 7:01:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Let me guess -- "I don't see no map" and "why is there this or that in the text". Save it.

2 posted on 04/10/2021 7:03:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

must be really tricky to fold back up...


3 posted on 04/10/2021 7:07:15 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: SunkenCiv
Somebody has a very good eye to correlate those squiggly lines to terrain features.
4 posted on 04/10/2021 7:13:20 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: SunkenCiv

I’d like to see a topographic overlay on that slab to see if really is a depiction of the region’s geography.


5 posted on 04/10/2021 7:18:32 AM PDT by diatomite (That grifter crook Biden or Kamella isn't my president and never will be!! Resist!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Original game board for “Risk”?


6 posted on 04/10/2021 7:35:39 AM PDT by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Then there is the far older and far less crude Map of the Creator.


7 posted on 04/10/2021 7:35:59 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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8 posted on 04/10/2021 7:36:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ll take GPS.


9 posted on 04/10/2021 7:46:08 AM PDT by libertylover (Many people who want to destroy us have bumper stickers on their cars that say: "Coexist".)
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To: heavy metal
must be really tricky to fold back up...

Do you know what the easiest way to refold a road map? ... Differently.

10 posted on 04/10/2021 7:47:36 AM PDT by libertylover (Many people who want to destroy us have bumper stickers on their cars that say: "Coexist".)
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To: marktwain

I never would have figured it out.


11 posted on 04/10/2021 7:54:31 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: heavy metal
Doctor Fun

12 posted on 04/10/2021 8:05:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Maybe that’s why no one is using it—it’s not a good map. Ha ha.


13 posted on 04/10/2021 8:11:10 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: SunkenCiv

It says “Rand McAlley-Oop. Soon to merge with Gronk-Nally.”


14 posted on 04/10/2021 8:12:42 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: SunkenCiv; dfwgator; Vermont Lt; libertylover

It also says “Looking for GPS.”


15 posted on 04/10/2021 8:14:11 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido
Where's the fork in the road?


16 posted on 04/10/2021 8:19:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I don’t know, but when you come to one, take it!

(Yogi Berra supposedly had an actual fork in a road leading to his house and you could get there irrespective of which way you went).


17 posted on 04/10/2021 8:24:35 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: dfwgator
But where is the Slauson Cutoff?


18 posted on 04/10/2021 8:27:43 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Isn’t the world only 6,000 years old?


19 posted on 04/10/2021 8:45:19 AM PDT by teofila
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To: marktwain
Somebody has a very good eye to correlate those squiggly lines to terrain features.

There was an old British TV show in the '90s called "Time Team". It was a group of archaeologists that would go dig a specific site - usually one ignored up until then - and try to locate a medieval manor or a bronze age village or whatever in a weekend. One of the guys, a fellow named Stewart, was didn't dig, he scanned the ground. He would walk around making notes and then come back and say 'there was a river over there 1,000 years ago, those slight bumps (everyone would say 'what bumps?') were battlements, and the gatehouse would be over there in the small depression.'

Everyone would laugh and ignore him and by the end of the episode, 9 times out of 10 they'd relent and dig where he said and lo, he was right all along.

20 posted on 04/10/2021 8:45:22 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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