A bronze age stone slab found in a prehistoric burial mound turns out to be Europe’s oldest known map that we can link to a specific territory.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/europes-oldest-map
#prehistory #maps
Tag: maps
A history of maps showing California as an island…
A #history of #maps showing #california as an island…which apparently persisted long beyond the point that expeditions had confirmed it was part of the mainland.
California, an island? Meet cartography’s most persistent mistake
The Glen McLaughlin Collection brings together more than 700 historical examples of ‘California as an island’.
And now I’m thinking of the idea of “soft places” in Sandman, where geography remains fluid until an area is thoroughly mapped.