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Tom Elliott

I just had an email from Gabe Moss at the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill alerting me to "the release of Livy Study Maps: Book 22, the latest addition to the Maps for Texts series."

More here: awmc.unc.edu/2025/03/20/livy-s

"... this set of twenty-three maps is designed for students and teachers working with Livy’s text, and offers detailed coverage of famous episodes such as the Battles of Lake Trasimene and Cannae, as well as of lesser-known campaigns from Book 22 of the History of Rome. The maps are available as free digital downloads under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license."

awmc.unc.eduLivy Study Maps: Book 22 | Ancient World Mapping Center
#Livy#ancientGeography#ancientHistory
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Miss Gayle

"Lidar has been used in Central America for about a decade & in that period, the technique has mapped 10x the area explored by archaeologists in a century. It seems certain Lidar will help scientists find many more Maya sites — so many...that not all of them can be excavated."

bigthink.com/strange-maps/lida

Very cool to see large cities & civilizations that existed prior to christianity enslaving, oppressing, and killing off the Indigenous American people.

Strange Maps — January 17, 2025 Major Mayan city discovered by scrolling past page 1 in Google search Dubbed “Valeriana” by researchers, the city of 50,000 peaked around 800 AD before being swallowed by the jungle. By analyzing existing Lidar images taken from an airplane, researchers have been able to identify a major Mayan city hidden by the Mexican jungle. The site has yet to be evaluated in sit. (Arial Image Credit: Auld-Thomas e.a. / Antiquity) Scientists know Mayan civilization started collapsing from 800 AD onward and suspect both climate change and overcrowding played a part in its downfall. But where are all the Mayan cities then? Enter Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane University in New Orleans. “I was on something like page 16 of Google search and found a [Lidar] survey done by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring,” he told the BBC. When he processed the survey’s data, conducted by plane, with an archaeological rather than an environmental perspective, Auld-Thomas noticed manmade structures beneath the treetops. This is not a small place. The site contains more than 6,750 buildings of various sizes, indicating that the city at its peak must have housed more people than the entire region does today. In fact, the researchers say Valeriana was the second-densest Mayan city, after Calakmul, and has the “hallmarks of a capital city.” Their findings are detailed in an article published by Antiquity on October 29, 2024.
#Archarology#AncientHistory#SouthAmerica
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Miss Gayle

Ice Age Geographers? 20,000-Year-Old 3D Map Found in France
ZME Science

zmescience.com/science/archaeo

Nestled within sandstone cliffs south of Paris, the Ségognole 3 shelter is part of a network of more than 2,000 engraved sites in the region. Its nique map was carved in the cave floor & represents a complex water-flow system. Archaeologists believe this could be an ancient hydrological masterpiece — possibly the world's first 3D model of a watercourse.

The cave features several remarkable artifacts, including two engraved horses on the sloping wall. They were chiselled into sandstone on the sides of a triangle. This isn’t any ordinary triangle, either — the markings were cut to look like a female pelvis, complete with thighs and hips and a channel right through the middle carrying rainfall. But as remarkable as this is, the map is even more spectacular. “The accuracy of the drawing of this hydrographical network reveals a remarkable capacity for abstract thinking in those who drew it and in those for whom it was intended,” writes the team in the study. The ability to redirect water is a hallmark of agriculture, which makes it all the more remarkable as this was happening well into the Ice Age. This would have taken a lot of work to shape up, so it’s unlikely to be the work of a bored cave dweller or something like that. The study was published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ojoa.12316 Photo of the carvings, contrasted with a line drawn map interpreting the geological features depicted.
#Cartography#Maps#Geology
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Sean Bala

"The first Buddhist art is strikingly different from the pure and philosophically abstracted Buddhism admired around the world today, with its familiar image of the Buddha lost in meditation. Instead, early Buddhist art is aniconic, yet every bit as vibrant, crowded and cacophonous as so much later Buddhist art is still, silent and quietly meditative.

One reason for this is that the art of the first Buddhist monasteries is shot through with the cosmology of ancient animist cults that existed before the arrival of the new teachings. The first Buddhist monks believed that they lived in a spiritually charged landscape, alive with powerful local godlings and spirits - called yakshas when male and yakshis when female - who took up residence in the trees and stones and streams around monasteries.These spirits personified the forces of nature and revealed themselves at will.…

In all this early art, you feel strongly the Buddhist intuition that the natural and animal worlds are closely related to humankind through great cycles of reincarnation: a neglected Elephant Queen in the earliest murals of the Ajanta Caves may be reborn as the Queen of Varanasi, yet she remains the same essence. Animals are therefore depicted with the same love and respect as humans. After all, in a world where trees could be spirits and the waters are alive with sentient beings, ethical living requires treading softly on this earth, guarding the purity of water and preserving the life of both trees and animals."

— William Dalrymple: The Golden Road, pp. 46-47

This is really fascinating. One thing that struck me from my studies of #Buddhism is just how rich the cosmology is. It makes sense that a faith rooted in reincarnation would have a different relationship with the natural world.

#India #Books #Bookstodon #ReadingNow #AncientHistory #VisualArt #Art #Religion @histodon@a.gup.pe @antiquidons@a.gup.pe

William Dalrymple: The Golden Road (2024, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
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