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An interesting look at the early spread of farming (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by boydster to c/[email protected]
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Credit: TimeMaps

As part of a personal educational journey, I've been exploring early human cultures. There are a lot of great websites I've encountered along the way, but this one had escaped my radar until yesterday.

I grabbed the map portion from a series of posts they had about early farming and strung them all together into a gif so I could visualize it better for myself, and it ended up looking pretty neat so it seemed crazy not to share it.

The green parts of each slide show you where the farming was happening at the time. The first slide represents 10000 BCE, and each slide after is dated 1000 years further ahead in time, all the way up to the last slide at 3000 BCE, as outlined by the TimeMaps folks.

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[โ€“] boydster 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hang on, the features are not necessarily locked behind the paywall, I don't think you gave this a fair look at all, and I'm encouraging to give it a second pass before you write it off entirely. I'll admit the screenshots I found were behind the paywall but I am presenting them here under fair use which should be entirely fine because it's only a very small sample of some content and it serves as a powerful visual aid, and that's really all my post was supposed to be - a cool graphic that tells a story all by itself.

Try this instead. it's how I found them initially and this was all free. Start out in Peru in the year 200ad.

I started there myself to learn about the Chavin civilization and what they were doing at around that time. And when I was done reading, I noticed in the top right corner I could zoom out from Peru and look at all of the Americas. And further, I could zoom out to look at the world. That's still all on 200ad, and it's still all gratis. But wait, go back to the Peru page you started on and now click the arrow to go back in time a few times and check out the green area that the early people were inhabiting as it shrinks. Still free. And still, you can zoom out from Peru and look at the continental or global views, and move around to different parts of the world.

Go to their Atlas page. Literally the entire left side of that page is free content.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Great! Thank you. I had trouble navigating. I get it now.