July 29, 2007
Image: Early Migration Map
link to large image: http://phoenicia.org/imgs/Map-of-human-migrations.jpg
Map of early human migrations according to mitochondrial population genetics (numbers are millennia before present).
>Link to transcript? of Wiki CD Selection: Human Migration
>Google Image Results for "early migration map"(s)
~No consumer interest in "paleolithic migration tours": "Walk in the steps of your paleolithic progenitors. Gaze upon the sites they may have viewed many many millenia ago. Literally trace across the face of the earth your matrilinial line from your motherland."?
When I first saw the thumbnail photo of this image, I didn't see a map. I saw a primitive representation of a woman sitting on the back of a giant flying bird.
The various google cached maps of migrations, linked above, started me thinking about my own migrations: the miles--the space-- I've covered from home to home, job to job, and school to school.
I just got the idea of a map of a hunter or wood gatherer tracing her path through the woods in search of food or fuel and comparing it to a map of a commuter or shopper as they travel to successfully complete their tasks.
The migration of the womb inside the body?
The slow steady migration of flesh and bone towards the ground?