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Maps are an ancient form of communication about locations, either nearby or far away. Humankind’s primitive ancestors undoubtedly employed the rudiments of map-making to designate territorial boundaries and describe the locations of food, shelter, or danger with a variety of easily understood symbols. Today, thousands of years after the first crude sketches on hides, wood, or rocks, maps as both concepts and useful objects are still with us, evolving in their sophistication concurrently with our technology, ideals, and needs.
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Richardson, G.T. (1985). Maps. In: Illustrations. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4992-4_4
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