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Scotland's most ancient home found – at 14,000 years old
The Scotsman ^ | Apr. 10, 2009 | Jenny Haworth

Posted on 04/10/2009 6:12:07 AM PDT by decimon

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1 posted on 04/10/2009 6:12:07 AM PDT by decimon
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On the rocks ping.


2 posted on 04/10/2009 6:13:13 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Awesome. Scotland is an incredible country with a fascinating history. Thanks for posting.


3 posted on 04/10/2009 6:15:08 AM PDT by fleagle ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
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How warm was it back then? Did they need global warming?


4 posted on 04/10/2009 6:16:07 AM PDT by mfish13
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Did they need global warming?

If this was at the end of the last ice age then yes.

5 posted on 04/10/2009 6:22:36 AM PDT by decimon
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6 posted on 04/10/2009 6:26:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Scotland is an incredible country with a fascinating history.

If I have it right then what was Scotland was then land-connected to what are now Ireland and France. Low sea levels.

7 posted on 04/10/2009 6:26:12 AM PDT by decimon
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Thanks blam.
Shock discovery of 15th century skeletons in Aberdeen

8 posted on 04/10/2009 6:27:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Scotland must have been a bleak place 14,000 years ago.


9 posted on 04/10/2009 6:37:05 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (We have nothing to fear but Obama himself.)
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Scotland must have been a bleak place 14,000 years ago.

Cold. Outside of the tropics, I imagine life was mostly survival.

10 posted on 04/10/2009 6:50:07 AM PDT by decimon
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“Scotland must have been a bleak place 14,000 years ago.”

Bleak 14,000 years ago, as compared to something-other-than-bleak now?


11 posted on 04/10/2009 6:56:12 AM PDT by flowerplough (The Obama Doctrine: Europe Good, America Bad.)
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"A technique used to fashion the blades known as "en eperon" made it clear they belonged to the upper paleolithic period."

Sounds like an early nine iron, or perhaps a sand wedge.

12 posted on 04/10/2009 6:56:41 AM PDT by shove_it (and have a nice day)
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Like a lot of it of it stull is.


13 posted on 04/10/2009 6:58:45 AM PDT by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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RE: Bleak

Clicked SunkenCiv’s 15th Century skelligan link, above, glanced over the article, and then noticed the adjacent list of small-story headlines:

“Union at odds with council over fortnightly bin collections,
Aberdeen to get fortnightly refuse collections,
Daycare closure provokes backlash against council,
Aberdeen man may have died from cold weather,
Closure-threatened factory plans to double sales,
Aberdeen City Council confirms 400 jobs to go,
BP launch investigation into helicopter crash”

I mean, except for the helicopter crash, and the use of “fortnightly”, those leads coulda come from my good, old, regressed, recessed, “rocks, rattlesnakes, and Republicans” north-central Pennsylvania home.


14 posted on 04/10/2009 7:08:27 AM PDT by flowerplough (The Obama Doctrine: Europe Good, America Bad.)
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"If I have it right then what was Scotland was then land-connected to what are now Ireland and France. Low sea levels."

Across the North Sea to Finland too.

15 posted on 04/10/2009 7:20:40 AM PDT by blam
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I was lucky enough to have visited Scotland in May of 2006. It was the middle of May, and it was snowing in the highlands. A couple on the bus tour from northern Australia had never seen snow, and asked the tour guide if we could stop so they could take pictures. They said their friends back home wouldn’t believe them unless they had photos of it.


16 posted on 04/10/2009 7:30:04 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Across the North Sea to Finland too.

Nah. Monty Python would have had a Finn skit. ;-)

17 posted on 04/10/2009 7:35:57 AM PDT by decimon
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Stone Age Sites Found Under North Sea (8,000BC)
18 posted on 04/10/2009 7:50:48 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Great stuff. Given that people tend to live by the sea and that the shorelines of that age are worldwide beneath the sea, most of our early history is likely submerged.


19 posted on 04/10/2009 7:57:13 AM PDT by decimon
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