The bovine in this panel may represent the constellation Taurus, with a pattern representing the Pleiades just above it. Īnother star chart panel, created more than 21,000 years ago, was found in the La Tête du Lion cave ( fr). Rappenglueck also discovered a drawing of the Northern Crown constellation in the cave of El Castillo (North of Spain), made in the same period as the Lascaux chart. He also suggested a panel in the same caves depicting a charging bison, a man with a bird's head and the head of a bird on top of a piece of wood, together may depict the Summer Triangle, which at the time was a circumpolar formation. This is dated from 33,000 to 10,000 years ago. German researcher Dr Michael Rappenglueck, of the University of Munich, has suggested that drawing on the wall of the Lascaux caves in France could be a graphical representation of the Pleiades open cluster of stars.

This artifact is 32,500 years old and has a carving that resembles the constellation Orion, although it could not be confirmed and could also be a pregnancy chart. The oldest known star chart may be a carved ivory Mammoth tusk, drawn by early people from Asia who moved into Europe, that was discovered in Germany in 1979. Farnese Atlas at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples Prehistory Ī variety of archaeological sites and artifacts found are thought to indicate ancient made star charts.

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