18 August 2006

Chinese RA neolithic star map

interesting: http://english.people.com.cn/200608/15/eng20060815_293315.html

2 comments:

george said...

Be nice to have a pic , I have had a web search but no luck so far .

Jan said...

Could well be a nice fill for the summertime or, as we call it, cucumber time.
This find was already reported sometime ago, accompanied by a photo.
The carvings looked like a bag of beans or a bucket with tennisballs or..., OK; smashed cucumbers!
There are of course rock carvings of the Big Dipper in this world. They can be recognised as such instandly.
It must have been easy for our cup-and-ring masons to carv a Big Dipper or Orion or any constellation into the rock. The interesting thing is: they didn't!
I'm still waiting for a photo with one or more constellations carved in a rock in the cup-and-ring tradition. That Chinese one is in the same queue now!
Cheers,
Jan