Posted on 04/01/2021 7:35:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
European rabbits dug up Stone and Bronze Age artifacts on Skokholm Island. (Image credit: Fiona McAllister Photography via Getty Images) A fluffle of wild rabbits has dug up priceless archaeological treasures on an island off the coast of Wales, in the United Kingdom.
The burrowing bunnies unearthed two artifacts — a 9,000-year-old Stone Age tool and a 3,750-year-old pottery piece, likely from a broken Bronze Age urn, according to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, which manages Skokholm Island, where the objects were found.
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Archaeologists have discovered similar artifacts on the U.K.'s mainland, but these new findings are the first of their kind on Skokholm Island, and indicate that humans visited or lived there thousands of years ago, the Wildlife Trust found.
The island, which sits about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) off the coast of Pembrokeshire, a county in southwest Wales, is known for the tens of thousands of seabirds that nest there in the spring and summer months. Its natural beauty and wildlife have earned it the nickname "Dream Island."
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Easter Bunny PinGGG!...................
I dig those rabbits!
It’s an interesting story, that I find amazing, what was it like to be living off the coast of Wales 9000 years ago..
How did the people get there ??
Why were the people there ??
How long had the people been there ??
How long did the people stay there before leaving or getting wiped out ??
How did the rabbits get there?.....................
Rick and Marty need to bring a dozen of these over to their work site.
There's bunnies on the sofa and there's bunnies on the floor, and there's some new ones comin' through the door! More?!?
The island is scenic. As long as one can ignore the threat of tsunami, and liked that cool salt air, great place for a vacation home.
There was a similar dig up by rabbits in the documentary TV series Time Team.
Exactly it’s all amazing to me
Holy Handgrenade that’s one scary picture!
They will need a permit for that
“How did the people get there ??”
They walked.
Geologist have found evidence of a land bridge from Europe to UK, from Russia to North America and from Asia to Japan.
They have also found evidence of vineyards in the UK and river beds in the Sahara.
So you mean the climate has changed, it’s gotten hotter then cooler, back and forth long before man introduced fossil fuels and greenhouse gases....you learn something new every day...../sarcasm included....
Used to skin seals, this 'bevelled pebble' discovered in a rabbit hole on Skokholm dates to the Late Mesolithic period, some 9,000 years ago. It's the first evidence of Stone Age inhabitants on the island, experts say Returning to the rabbit hole the next day, the couple found large fragments of pottery believed to be part of a Bronze Age cremation urn. While such urns are not uncommon in western Wales they've never been found on any of the western Pembrokeshire islands
Skokholm is a remote island in the Celtic Sea about two miles off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales
Skokholm is home to tens of thousands of seabirds, including puffins, ducks, Manx shearwaters and storm petrels. Richard Brown and Giselle Eagle, who discovered the artifacts dug up by the rabbits, are the island's newest wildlife wardens and its sole fulltime residents
That’s no ordinary rabbit!
Eww doe’s wasclwy wabbits.
The stone tools said Stanley on it...?
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