9,000-year-old house reveals Stone Age lifestyle

Discovery News ^ | Aug 11, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas

[decimon]

The remains of a 9,000-year-old hunter-gatherers' house, uncovered during construction at an airport, have been unearthed in Great Britain's Isle of Man. The house was surrounded by buried mounds of burnt hazelnut shells and stocked with stone tools, according to archaeologists working on the project and a report in the latest British Archaeology.

It is the earliest known complete house on the Isle of Man and one of Britain's oldest and best-preserved houses, according to the report. The find also offers a glimpse of domestic life 4,000 before Stonehenge.

[decimon]

Man is an island ping.

[PIF]

Headline: 8,000 year old Computer Age camp found. How could people live in these flimsy cloth structures?

I think finding a camp site and calling it a house is just as silly, but we must keep reinforcing the prevailing paradigm, less some one get the idea that we archeologist's don't have a clue and wing it to get more grant funds.

[beethovenfan]

If the green morons have their way that’s what we’ll be living in.

[Last Dakotan]

Was the toilet seat up or down?

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Pretty precise wall-making by a “hunter-gatherer”. Must’ve been out hunting and gathering mortar.

[Adder]

So easy a caveman could do it.

[decimon]

I think finding a camp site and calling it a house is just as silly...

That foundation looks real enough.

[decimon]

Was the toilet seat up or down?

Out.

[decimon]

Pretty precise wall-making by a “hunter-gatherer”. Must’ve been out hunting and gathering mortar.

I'm impressed. I'd like to know what is that mortar.

[newfreep]

I am a rock. I am an island. - P. Simon

[higgmeister]

9,000-year-old house reveals Stone Age lifestyle,p>Well Duh!

[WoofDog123]

HEck, I wonder how far south Man was of the Glacier line, and/or if it was connected to britain still at that time.

[rahbert]

no Fred and Wilma pictures yet?

[WoofDog123]

“I think finding a camp site and calling it a house is just as silly,”

Not sure where in the (complete) article one would think this was a campsite, it clearly had a years-long period of habitation, wood structure, etc.

[PIF]

Sure it is real, but it only takes a short while to throw it up. And so what? Why did they stop there - in that particular spot and not some where else? etc - unknowable, unanswerable - questions abound - each taken alone, developed in isolation to fit a preconceived theory. None fitting a whole - remember the great ice age had only ended several thousand years earlier — what was lost as the sea rose hundreds of feet virtually over night, as the land echoed with huge earthquakes when the long depressed land rebounded?

There is more to “prehistory” that we imagine, and maybe more then we can imagine...

There is example after example of things which could have existed, but because of the catastrophes from Mt. Toba in 74,000 BC to the melt beginning in 16500 BC nothing remains.

Nothing except the orts and other dentris on which some get money by pointing out, but signifying nothing.

[MrPiper]

Once the residents arrived at the island by boat, they probably would have not strayed far from home since "they could obtain all that they needed locally,"

Hmmmm, how little we have changed,,, beer and nuts nearby?,,,, why venture out from the couch??? Can you say caveman couch potato?

[decimon]

HEck, I wonder how far south Man was of the Glacier line, and/or if it was connected to britain still at that time.

According to the article, Man was at that time an island.

[MrPiper]

remember the great ice age had only ended several thousand years earlier

Could that have been caused by global warming?????? did they have SUV's then???? (gov schooled)

[decimon]

I don’t know what is the point of your disjointed rant. This has nothing to do with Mount Toba, the sea had obviously not risen, then or now, to swamp this area and this is not the first such structure found on the Isle of Man or in Europe.