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Feb

2009

World Wall Map

No one knows just how long World Wall Map making has been around, but it is almost certain that probably for 8,000 years humans have used World Wall Map, and without a shadow of a doubt World Wall Map preceded writing. We know this because there are World Wall Map scribed onto the walls of caves by the men and women who lived in them, and examples of ancient maps of Babylon, Greece and Asia, have been found by archaeologists and they precede writing in those countries too.
It is easy to say that the very first maps were actually World Wall Map because early Cave dwellers didn't have parchment or papyrus to draw their maps onto and so the oldest form of map making is indeed the creation of World Wall Map.
So we know how old Wall Maps are but why did early man decide to take a charred stick and try and record the surrounding area? Well, a map is a very powerful thing to posses for so many reasons, strategic, defining ownership and probably more importantly to show others where they could find food and even enemies.
The Polynesian people who extensively explored and settled the Pacific islands during the first two millenniums AD used World Wall Map mounted on their vessels to navigate across large distances. A surviving World Wall Map from the Marshall Islands uses sticks tied in a grid with palm strips representing wave and wind patterns, with shells attached to show the location of islands.
Early World Wall Map would have had one thing in common and that is they would have been reasonably local and never based on the fact that the Earth is actually a globe. This trend would have continued until in sometime in the 3rd century when Greek philosophers including Aristotle began to suggest that the earth was spherical.
World Wall Map themes range from climate, relief (elevation), land use, and vegetation, to political boundaries, historical events, industrial areas and transportation routes, among other subjects it could be said that there is most likely a Wall Map for every taste and occasion.
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