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Hidden cartographies 1. The Pavlov-Map (25,000 BC), carved into a mammoth tusk. Found in 1962, it depicts a hunting landscape, the Pavlovské Hills and the meandering course of the river Thaya (Czech Republic). It is possibly the oldest map ever made. instagram.com/p/CL3urKVDAIV/

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Federico Italiano

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Mar 1, 2021

The slopes of the Pavlovské Hills are 'translated' into abstract shapes and symbolic forms that are for us almost undecipherable. Their meanings, however, were obvious for the groups of hunter-gatherers that used this map

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Federico Italiano

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Mar 1, 2021

2. And here 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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What is your evidence that this represents private property as opposed to, say, communally owned non-heritable land divisions that revert back to the community upon the death of the holder?

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Cristina Turconi (Milan University), who completed the most accurate survey of the petroglyph so far, sees the Bedolina Map as related to the increasing private claims on landholdings

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Ok - do you have a citation for me, so that I can see Cristina Turconi's evidence?

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"The representation of a territory of such intensive cultivation moreover is better inserted in the cultural context of the I millennium b.C, when in all Europe there was a full confirmation of the private propriety."

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The map of Bedolina, Valcamonica Rock Art - TRACCE

TRACCE no. 9 – by Cristina Turconi 2nd International Congress of Rupestrian Archaeology 2-5 October 1997 DARFO BOARIO TERME The map of Bedolina in the context of the Rock Art

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