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
The TV crew from America walked along and found the Republic of Georgia beautiful. The smell of the leaves. The rain. The clean mountain air. “This is what we were designed to smell,” the correspondent said. We were sitting at one of the great crossroads of the world: the Caucasus. An ancient and embattled bridge — between Asia and Europe, between East and West, between Christianity and Islam. A pig walked past. It had the worldly, unhurried gait of a pig that had been walking by for a thousand or more years.
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
Nodar Giorgadze
Mining truck driver, age 56
Who are you?
I am Nodar Giorgadze.
Where do you come from?
I come from Georgia, the Bolnisi region, and the village of Balichi.
Where are you going?
I don’t go anywhere. I’m at home. My parents built this house. My children will be here. My great-grandchildren will be here.
Observations from social media from the Milestone location
As the walk restarts after a long pause in Tbilisi, Georgia, the richness of the region’s culture is on display on Twitter and Instagram. From the historic (the ancient city of Mtskheta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site), to the modern (Tbilisi’s steel and glass Bridge of Peace), to the offbeat (the renowned Gabriadze Puppet Theatre), these posts capture the variety of lives and landscapes that make up this intersection of Europe and Asia.
A video showing the landscape around this Milestone
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