Visualizing the estimated timeline of early human migration. Published in A walk through Time. TEST 2
Jeff Blossom
Every hundred miles Paul Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. TEST 2
Every hundred miles Paul Salopek pauses to record the landscape and a person he meets, assembling a global snapshot of humankind. TEST 2
It was an extinct volcano. Its cone arrowed 13,000 feet into space and was very stormy. You rarely saw the summit. It featured in many Kurdish folk songs about valor and love.
The 17th century Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi looked upon these vast and sloping pastures in open-mouthed awe. Grasses so green they burned your eyes out. The local cattle so fat that herders emptied their milk buckets into canals. One nearby town had “7000 milk fountains” wrote Çelebi, “drawn down from the 3000 milk cisterns in the summer pasture on Mt. Subhan.”
A wraparound soundscape at this Milestone
This Milestone’s location on a map
Photos of the ground under Paul’s feet and the sky above at this Milestone
A brief question and answer with the first person Paul meets at this Milestone
Yusuf Kahraman and Eyep Ugar
Shepherds; Yusuf (L) age 14, Eyep (R) age 15
Who are you?
Eyep: “We are cousins.”
Yusuf: [Says nothing.]
Where do you come from?
Eyep: “We are from Turkey.
Yusuf: [Says nothing.]
Where are you going?
Eyep: “I want to go to university. Maybe in Ankara. I want to study to become a teacher.”
Yusuf: [Says nothing.]
Paul: “What about Yusuf?”
Eyep: “Yusuf? He wants to be a geological engineer.”
Paul: “Yusuf doesn’t say much.”
Eyep: “No. He is a thinker.”
A video showing the landscape around this Milestone
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