The dawn of cartography: the Pavlov-Map (25000 BC), carved into a mammoth tusk, probably a hunting map depicting the Pavlovian landscapepic.twitter.com/8JlxCFLSZj
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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 https://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V2_B3/HOC_VOLUME2_Book3_chapter13.pdf …pic.twitter.com/pTxtqnxSgO
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Arctic Cartography – Chukchi drawing on sealskin (c. 1860) depicting the coastal topography of Chukotka Peninsula and its trade locationspic.twitter.com/a2DFHMyLIS
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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 1137pic.twitter.com/0M3SP3aVT4
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Another fascinating "stone map" is the Sayhuite monolith (Peru), probably a symbolic representation of the Inca hydraulic systemspic.twitter.com/ZLP0u1WqHO
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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) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_Map_of_the_World …pic.twitter.com/XSHyLSpJiA
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The Nippur map, c. 1500 B.C. Possibly the earliest town plan drawn to scalepic.twitter.com/0kb5BERyFN
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