"Those ancient humans who might have scratched directions in the sand or carved lines on wood were the first to practice the art of symbolic representation in the form of a map." https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/oldest-maps-world #History #Anthropology #Map #Cartography #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @anthropology
Source: https://twitter.com/laphamsquart/status/1666465537533313024
@bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology The use of a late 19c construction (never re-construction) of the map ad mentem Eratosthenes is likely not the author’s doing, but the use of a world map to illustrate a piece about detailed maps of place reveals the deep rooted myth of cartography.
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@independentpen @bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology (b) “cartography” emerged in 19c as idealization that all the things we call maps, plans, charts are all part of the same process of turning the world to paper; the ideal was concretized with early 20c modernism and still holds conceptual sway