[bunkerhill7]

A bulldozer digging a road here uncovered a starmap oriented to a North star .. It was carved into a ledge six feet deep. The starmap was calculated by north star & star positions as being carved in ~25,000 B.C. It has 9 dots carved into the circle..9 planets?

[Verginius Rufus]

No one 25,000 B.C. could have known about Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. They probably wouldn't think of earth as a planet.

Maybe the 9 stands for 9 bright objects in the sky--the sun, the moon, Mercury as a morning star, Mercury as an evening star, Venus as a morning star, Venus as an evening star, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Or perhaps the 8 brightest stars in the Big Dipper and Polaris. Ca. 25,000 B.C. Polaris would have been the bright star nearest the north pole.