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Harryshill
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Re: How is Rock Art aged?
Dec 20, 2012, 15:28
Sanctuary wrote:
tiompan wrote:
Harryshill wrote:
bladup wrote:
Harryshill wrote:
No I wouldn't. I also think its unlikely that a map would be required in the first place


It might if some places were out of bounds, and if not there were more trees back then and we all know how easy it is to get lost in big woods.


Difficult to find a small stone map in the woods.



If the woods are troublesome for finding anything then you might need a map to find the original "map " . Then what do you do ?. If what it is supposed to be indicating is nearby you may have come across "them " earlier in which case no need for the map. If they are more distant do you then remember the info but if so pretty soon your'e back to the original problem ,in the woods not knowing where to go and in need of a map . Where you find one marked rock often enough there will be others , so you miight find another "map" which will have entirely different info from the first , i..e. a different number of markings and in a different configuration , do you then accept this one as the real " map" ? Then there is the problem of the map maker how did they know how to replicate the configuration accurately when they also had the problem of being in the woods which caused the problem in the first place ? More likely punters did know their way around to important spots in the landscape whether in trees or otherwise and had no need for maps particularly "Flintstone " style ones .


It's interesting that the 'map' in question was built into a passage grave nearly 6,000 years ago with only a small amount of cups showing. This suggests that whatever its 'use' was originally it was no longer of any further use by then. Would that be a fair assessment?


Not necessarily. Something doesn't have to be on view to have importance or give importance. It's existence might of been important to the dead or maybe to the living. The carving might have been the work of a/the person interned, and it's existence in the structure, being more important than it being seen in it's entirety.
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