Posted on 08/11/2009 5:44:59 PM PDT by 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.
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Thanks decimon. Hmm, seems like we had a topic about some find on the Isle of Man just these past few weeks. |
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That was the gay Neanderthal thing. Don't look it up. ;-)
But I thought no Man is an island.
Unto himself. These nut munchers were apparently a community.
http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology/research/rdoggerland.shtml
Doggerland Project
Prof. Bryony Coles has been examining the archaeology of “Doggerland”, which now lies under the North Sea. Its highest point is the submerged Dogger Bank where prehistoric artefacts are occasionally found by fishermen and geologists. At the height of the last Ice Age, Doggerland was dry and stretched from the present east coast of Britain and the present coasts of The Netherlands, Denmark and North Germany. Thus, the so-called land-bridge, was a place where people settled as the ice-sheets wasted and northwestern Europe became habitable once more. But, as the ice-sheets retreated further and sea levels rose, the North Sea encroached on the land, eventually separating the British Peninsula from the mainland.
The Doggerland Project has made use of recent geological exploration of the North Sea bed, and other sources of data, to reconstruct the former landscape and explore its cultural interpretations. The presence of the former landscapes, their changing coastlines, the process of land loss and the eventual insularity of Britain affected the inhabitants of northwestern Europe from the late Palaeolithic to the Neolithic, if not later. Three papers have been published from this project. The next stage will be to investigate possible means of underwater survey for archaeological sites, most probably around the former estuaries of Doggerland’s rivers.
MAP: http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology/images/research/rdoggerland.jpg
Were Fred and Wilma home?
EARTH IN UPHEAVAL
PAGE 166
The North Sea
The stormy North Sea, bordered by Scotland, England,
the Low Countries, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, is
a very recent basin. The geologists assume that the area
was once before occupied by a sea, but that early in the
Ice Age the detritus carried from Scotland and Scandi-
navia filled it, so that there was no sea left: it was all
turned into land. The river Rhine flowed through this
land and the Thames was its tributary; the mouth of the
river was somewhere near Aberdeen.
In post-glacial times, so it is assumed, in the Subboreal
period, which began about 2000 years before the present
era and endured to about 800, large parts of the area
were added to the sea. The Atlantic Ocean sent its waters
along the Scottish and Norwegian shores, and also through
the Channel that had been formed only a short while
before. Human artifacts and bones of land animals were
dredged from the bottom of the North Sea; and along
the shores of Scotland and England, as well as on the
Dogger Bank in the middle of the sea, stumps of trees with
their roots still in the ground were found.
Forty-five miles from the coast, from a depth of thirty-six meters, Norfolk fishermen drew up a spearhead carved from the antler of a deer, embedded in a block of peat. 1 This artifact dates from the Mesolithic or early Neolithic Age and serves as one of many proofs that the area covered by the North Sea was a place of human habitation not many thousands of years ago. From the analysis of the pollens found in the peat taken from the bottom of the sea, the conclusion was reached that these forests existed in not too remote times. It has also been assumed that the building of large areas of the North Sea in the Subboreal period resulted from a rather sudden sinking of the land, which some authorities date at about 1500, or a little earlier, at the same time that floods destroyed the lake dwellings of central Europe.
http://www.archive.org/stream/earthupheaval010880mbp/earthupheaval010880mbp_djvu.txt
No, it had turned to Rubble.
Why must mounds of burnt hazelnut shells have a significant meaning?
Maybe Mama Neanderthal was just a lazy housekeeper.
Our house was built shortly after the civil war, or so we thought.
The beams under our house are about the same size, perhaps it’s older than we had thought. LOL
oh well...
Welcome to FR!
*shrug* I liked it.
Here they are singing the National Anthem Of The Isle Of Man (Ellan Vannin).
Sometimes you learn something when you're not even trying.
WTH?!? I really had no idea! Like (probably) most people, I’d always assumed Australia. I probably should have checked with Kitty Can.
Well, I’m sure trying out that lifestyle would have made him feel like a new man... /rimshot /ew, please no rimshots
:’)
Thanks Fred Nerks!
I actually saw caught that after my post, and since they were quoting a named archeologist (iirc), presumably that is in fact the case, versus unnamed sources, which invariably are fabrications in a piece like this.
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