'Oldest Star Chart' Found (32,500 Years Old)

BBC ^ | 1-21-2003 | Dr. David Whetstone

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Remember that Neanderthal was still around at this time.

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Ping.

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[Cacophonous]

'Oldest Star Chart' Found (32,500 Years Old)

Who was Liz Taylor married to back then?

[Junior]

Fortean bump.

[happygrl]

Love this stuff.

[Waco]

1st Cribbage Board?

[SwinneySwitch]

Could it be something else hanging between his legs?

They were obviously hill or mountain people! They had one short leg so that they could stand erect!

[expatpat]

It may be a picture of Elvis, too. Noone will ever know which of these conjectures, if any, is correct.

[Reactionary]

"Remember that Neanderthal was still around at this time."

Yes, liberals were around. They didn't do much, and they complained a lot, but they were there.

[pabianice]

On one side of the tablet is the man-like being with his legs apart and arms raised. Between his legs hangs what could be a sword and his waist is narrow. His left leg is shorter than his right one.

Not bad, considering that the sword wasn't invented for another 25,000 years. Some scholarship.

[RightWhale]

30,000 BC is old enough to be interesting. Egyptians had a substantial mythology involving Orion and his sword. They would paint the Pharoah in a typical Orion pose, which has been interpreted in art class as lacking representational perspective.

[aristeides]

Do you have any other evidence for the date of the invention of the sword beyond the absence (so far) of earlier specimens?

Absence of evidence is not always evidence of absence.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

Between his legs hangs what could be a sword...
Or it could be his club.

[WoofDog123]

On one side of the tablet is the man-like being with his legs apart and arms raised. Between his legs hangs what could be a sword and his waist is narrow. His left leg is shorter than his right one.

I think this is the writer editorializing...the archaeologists are likely to realize this would likely be some sort of bludgeon, or perhaps a bow or other non-copper/tin/bronze/iron item.

[WoofDog123]

"Dr Rappenglueck allowed for this effect by using a computer program to wind back the sky and found evidence for a particular star in Orion that was in a different place all those years ago. "

Too bad they don't tell us if it corresponded to the tablet..

aside from this nit, this level of antiquity is fascinating archaeology, in that something we see still every day is represented SO long ago...

[SwinneySwitch]

Look at the size of that thing! Could be a stump!

[VadeRetro]

"Whitehouse" is right, "Whetstone" wrong, for Dr. David's last name. Interesting article but a bit of a stretch. Then again, I never see anything in the stars.

[yankeedame]

On one side of the tablet is the man-like being with his legs apart and arms raised. Between his legs hangs what could be a sword and his waist is narrow. His left leg is shorter than his right one.

Not bad, considering that the sword wasn't invented for another 25,000 years. Some scholarship.

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LOL! Hey, what are you? Some kind of trouble maker? Don't you know that it's the intention that counts?

[Redcloak]

Does anyone have a star chart program handy? Fire it up and tell us how the stars of Orion looked in 30,500 BC. What does 32,500 years of stellar movement do to Orion's shape? (In other words, did it look like the figurine back then?)