Ladiesman^
Spaceman
Originally posted by Bob McDob
...but was there a sense of direction before lodestones and magnets? I know there was the Sun and the stars, but still...
I think we've had the cardinal directions for a long time. Even before magnets and such they knew the sun rose in the East and set in the West, and they could generally locate the North star. So that makes me believe that we've had directions for a very very very long time.