From Turkey, Catelhoyuk, 8,500 years old.
Michael Marshall at New Scientist explains
that archaeologists had know for years about a mural created 8,500
years ago in Turkey, but that new research is suggesting that the
painting is both a depiction of a volcanic eruption and a map. In a paper published recently in PLoS ONE, archaeologist Axel Schmitt argues that the series of dots on stone “depicts
an explosive summit eruption of the Hasan Dağı twin-peaks volcano
located ~130 km northeast of Çatalhöyük, and a birds-eye view of a town
plan in the foreground.”
