Can you buy globes of the Earth in prehistoric times?
by Mark Jeffery, globemaker at goodwoodglobes
Over millions of years, as tectonic plates shift, the shapes of the continents and the oceans change. Millions of years ago, the world looked very different from the map that’s so familiar to us today.
So why limit globes to showing today’s world? Check out these globes of a world that looks strangely different from our own.
Eocene globe – Greaves & Thomas
This handsome globe shows the world as it was 50 million years ago, using data from geologist Christopher Scotese and design from artist Taylor Schmidt.
And that’s not the only slice of prehistory offered by Greaves & Thomas: they offer ten other prehistoric globes, showing the continents and the oceans at different times stretching back to the Precambrian, 600 million years ago. They even dabble in predictive tectonics, offering globes showing the world in 50, 150 and 250 million years time!
Price: £150 (around $200)
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