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
Poet, researcher. Recent books: Grand Tour (Hanser 2019) Translation & Geography (Routledge 2016) Un esilio perfetto (Feltrinelli 2015) L'impronta (Aragno 2014)
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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
One of the first depictions of private property – the Bedolina Map, Iron Age rock carving in the petroglyph complex of Valcamonicapic.twitter.com/anGfLh0TPj
Greenland Inuit cartographic devices: portable, tactile maps carved out of driftwood https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/hes-got-whole-coast-his-hand/ …pic.twitter.com/ufvJB0uVWx
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
Arctic Cartography – Chukchi drawing on sealskin (c. 1860) depicting the coastal topography of Chukotka Peninsula and its trade locationspic.twitter.com/a2DFHMyLIS
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
Another fascinating "stone map" is the Sayhuite monolith (Peru), probably a symbolic representation of the Inca hydraulic systemspic.twitter.com/ZLP0u1WqHO
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
The Nippur map, c. 1500 B.C. Possibly the earliest town plan drawn to scalepic.twitter.com/0kb5BERyFN
Map of Piri Reis, Turkish, 1503, the first one that contains Antarctica and the Austral territory. Colon did not arrive first .. it seems
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