The dawn of cartography: the Pavlov-Map (25000 BC), carved into a mammoth tusk, probably a hunting map depicting the Pavlovian landscape
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One of the first depictions of private property – the Bedolina Map, Iron Age rock carving in the petroglyph complex of Valcamonica
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Greenland Inuit cartographic devices: portable, tactile maps carved out of driftwood hakaimagazine.com/article-short/
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Sculptural Cartography – The Marshall Islands stick charts represent a system of mapping ocean swells used by the Marshallese to navigate by canoe the Pacific Ocean press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_
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Arctic Cartography – Chukchi drawing on sealskin (c. 1860) depicting the coastal topography of Chukotka Peninsula and its trade locations
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Early Chinese cartography. The "Yu Ji Tu", or "Map of the Tracks of Yu Gong", carved onto a stone stele in 1137
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Another fascinating "stone map" is the Sayhuite monolith (Peru), probably a symbolic representation of the Inca hydraulic systems
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The Babylonian World Map (or Imago Mundi), probably the oldest map of the world, discovered at Sippar, some 60 km north of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates (6th century BC) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia
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The Nippur map, c. 1500 B.C. Possibly the earliest town plan drawn to scale
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Good luck driving from here to Alice via the Plenty Highway off a mammoth tusk map.
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Here's some information on this and other carved mammoth tusks found in the region donsmaps.com/dolnivpottery.
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