Mythic cartography is the art of mapping stories onto a living landscape. In Ireland, these patterns are visible through the corpus of Dindshenchas poems and prose: in Australia, they have traditionally been painted onto rocks by the First Australians.
Join the Story Archaeologists as they chart the Songlines and Storylines in these, environmentally differing, mythic map libraries.
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Music: “Tam Lin” by Gian Castello.
Links for the episode
- To learn more about Kakadu national park in the Northern Territories in Australia, visit their website: kakadu.com.au
- To learn about the archaeology of Knowth in the Boyne Valley, visit the official website: newgrange.com/knowth.htm
- This site has excellent images of all the decorated kerbstones at Knowth: megalithicireland.com/Knowth.htm
- To find out about the extraordinary Neolithic complex discovered in Orkney, visit this site: orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar
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