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    Engraved mammoth tusk from Gravettian site of Pavlov I (c.30–25kya, neighboring Dolní Věstonice). The design has been interpreted as a schematic map w/ slopes of the Pálava Hills above, meandering of the River Dyje below, and a circle (highlighted in red) perhaps denoting the site itself [3105×1747]


    https://www.archeoparkpavlov.cz/en/the-mammoth-tusk-from-pavlov/t1301

    https://www.donsmaps.com/dolnivpottery.html#:~:text=This%20may%20be%20the%20earliest%20map%20ever%20found.%20It%20is%20a%20drawing%20of%20an%20engraving%20on%20a%20mammoth%20tusk.%20The%20mammoth%20tusk%20was%20found%20in%201962%20at%20Pavlov%2C%20near%20Dolni%20Vestonice

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engraving_on_a_mammoth_tusk,_map,_Gravettian,_076872_cropped.jpg

    Source on chronology: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40352488_Pavlov_I_-_Southeast_a_window_into_the_Gravettian_lifestyles

    A YouTube documentary on the Gravettian period, from which I first learned of this incredible artifact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nEOedyRTMw&list=PLtCnpHx7TBtoQC_9HJLVSMhLKH_3-Nuuc&index=2

    Info on other neat examples of traditional and prehistoric cartography here: https://xcancel.com/FedeItaliano76/status/1048080938029264896

    https://xcancel.com/FedeItaliano76/status/1747634925283508491

    https://hakaimagazine.com/article-short/hes-got-whole-coast-his-hand/

    https://hakaimagazine.com/article-short/navigating-sticky-situation/

    https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CM%5CE%5CMezhyricharcheologicalsite.htm#:~:text=A%20unique%20artefact%20found%20at%20the%20Mezhyrich,the%20oldest%20map%20ever%20to%20be%20found

    https://donsmaps.com/mammothcamp.html#:~:text=This%20shows%20what%20may%20be%20the%20original%20map%20on%20an%20ivory%20plaque%20from%20Mezhyrich%2C%20%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%96%D1%87%2C%20on%20display%20in%20a%20Russian/Ukrainian%20museum

    https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=4355

    https://aboutbasquecountry.eus/en/2016/03/13/the-oldest-map-in-western-europe-discovered-in-a-cave-in-navarre/

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248409000839

    https://www.sci.news/archaeology/science-catalhoyuk-map-mural-volcanic-eruption-01681.html

    https://www.sciencealert.com/earliest-known-3d-map-found-in-prehistoric-french-cavern-say-experts

    by JaneOfKish

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    2. JaneOfKish on

      I’d like to take this opportunity to one again plug a little community which I’d love to see grow: r/HumanPrehistory

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