[Taxacom] Oldest species distribution maps

[Tony Rees]

Some ideas here, maybe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeography#History

(no affiliation to the content of that page)

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees


On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 at 16:30, Neal Evenhuis via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> I would assume the oldest maps that have cities on them. Perhaps the Imago
> Mundi Babylonian map of 6th century BCE. Since cities plotted the
> distribution of the species Homo sapiens known at the time the map was made.
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> Neal
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> Which are the oldest publidhed distribution maps for any
> species?Thanks.Luis
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