Posted on 12/19/2013 5:05:23 PM PST by Renfield
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This is really interesting!!
Wouldn’t they in fact not be prehistoric maps, but maps of prehistoric Britain.
Our planet is 5 billion (as in Carl Sagan’s BILLIONS and BILLIONS) years old. Our human history is “chump change” in comparison. Still interesting but in light of putting it in perspective, it’s not so old, is it?
I knew it! I...just...knew...it. Stonehenge........water skiing.
Good one, Mr. Picky.
LOL
Well, at least he is correcting the publication and not a poster. It is irritating when a professional magazine makes such an error as it is indicative of the dumbing down of our education system.
they must hsve driven a lot of cars back then to create all that global warming
Wow prehistoric man must have had really high carbon output to melt those glaciers and cause all that flooding
I think a lot of interesting human history must have happened during the pre and post glacial flooding periods. Things to explain Stonehenge, the pyramids, and other monolithic structures that seem improbable by the standards we view prehistory with. Unfortunately most of our ancient history was lost with the burning of the Library of Alexandria (thanks Muzzies). I think it’s possible an advanced civilization existed at that time, but was lost maybe due to some natural cataclysm, e.g. what we call the Great Flood.
True enough.
This is probably the solution to the old mystery of how they hauled the giant dolmens from Cornwall, where they were mined, to Salisbury, when they hadn’t invented the wheel yet. They didn’t need wheels, since they could just float them on rafts all the way to the construction site along these ancient waterways.
If they exist, they really cant even be pre-historic. So perhaps they are the oldest yet discovered maps in Britain?
He’s even got the squint down!
And isn't it a contradiction of terms to have a prehistoric map?
So the other features associated with Stonehenge — such as the processional roads which are partially underwater on this map — are from a much later time?
What this serves to remind us of is how powerfully history is influenced by geography. Terrain features that go unnoticed when driving on a smooth roadway were dreaded obstacles to ox-drawn wagons. Famines could be local as well as regional and your village was your family. The further back in history, the more limited the travel and trade was, although the Roman Roads and Cities were the highpoint that made the Dark Ages that much darker.
Still, that there was travel and exploration in the earlier ages cannot be denied. Someone always wants to know what lies beyond those ‘far blue hills’ and across that body of water.
Thanks for the reminder of our mutual inheritance from our ancestors!
Hey Dummy- It`s called a PENINSULA!
“Stonehenge - surrounded by water on three sides”
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