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Startling evidence of a Stone Age structure in the Solent
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| Sunday September 27th 2009
| Peter Law
Posted on 09/30/2009 8:05:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:05:17 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:06:11 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
“Raiders of the Lost Ark (of Noah?)” ping!
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:06:40 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: SunkenCiv
Now we are diving for a dig....where do they put the dirt?
LOL!
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:19:14 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:21:02 PM PDT
by
Blue State Insurgent
(She is our Joan of Arc and we are her Guardian Captains.)
To: SunkenCiv

Some assembly required: The flatpack Helsinki, which has five rooms and a loft space for store, can be knocked together in a few days
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:26:14 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
Yet another great reason to visit Hampshire. But sadly the lottery keeps getting the numbers wrong...
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posted on
09/30/2009 8:53:38 PM PDT
by
Mr. Dough
(Who was the greater military man, General Tso or Col. Sanders?)
To: SunkenCiv
Submerged wooden structure built by Mesolithic carpenters 8000 yrs ago.....?
It's evidence of the sea levels rising or that wood doesn't always float.
All seriousness aside, civilizations come and go, some endure briefly only to sink and rot from unexpected fortune of changing tides.
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posted on
09/30/2009 9:10:32 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
To: SunkenCiv

Garry Momber, Director of HWTMA said: This is a site of international importance as it reveals a time before the English Channel existed when Europe and Britain were linked. Earlier excavations have produced flint tools, pristine 8,000-year-old organic material such as acorns, charcoal and worked pieces of wood showing evidence of extensive human activity. This is the only site of its kind in Britain and is extremely important to our understanding of our Stone Age ancestors from the lesser-known Mesolithic period.
At first we had no idea of the size of this site, but now we are finding evidence of hearths and ovens so it appears to be an extensive settlement. We are hoping that this excavation will reveal more artefacts and clues to life in the Stone Age.
SCIENCE DAILY 2007
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posted on
09/30/2009 9:25:17 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum)
To: SunkenCiv
EARTH IN UPHEAVAL PAGE 167
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
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posted on
09/30/2009 9:32:32 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/01/2009 6:27:37 AM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks for the post. There must be many, many similar undiscovered sites under the North Sea and English Channel. Lots of work for future archaeologists and lots of interesting discoveries ahead.
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posted on
10/01/2009 12:24:58 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(Barack Obama is an old Kenyan word for Jimmy Carter)
To: colorado tanker
I hope this particular offshore dig produces something a little more exciting, but then, did you see how low the budget was?!? Astounding.
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posted on
10/01/2009 7:11:48 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Fred Nerks
Wow, he’s givin’ us the finger!
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posted on
10/01/2009 7:55:02 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: BIGLOOK
Ironically, these chunks of wood are remnants of a treehouse.
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posted on
10/01/2009 7:55:41 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Mr. Dough
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posted on
10/01/2009 7:55:53 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I read the novel Atlantis a few weeks back....about the discovery of Atlantis which disappeared during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, c. 6000 BC. It was ....novel and on a scale of 1 to 10, it rates a -6000 .
But it did have interesting points theorizing the spread of the technological and civilizing aspects of late neolthic societies through Europe, the Mid East and North Africa.
Leaves little room for intellectual spontaneity in wide spread groups of Homo Sapiens to arrive at successful methods to establish a culture.
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posted on
10/01/2009 9:47:01 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
To: SunkenCiv
I did notice the budget. I wish there would be more $$ for underwater archeology, although they produce interesting results often on a shoestring.
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posted on
10/02/2009 10:17:16 AM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(Barack Obama is an old Kenyan word for Jimmy Carter)
To: colorado tanker
And the only future for breakthrough archaeology in the US (because of NAGPRA) will be offshore. In this hemisphere, the most interesting stuff seems to be taking place in Brazil.
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posted on
10/02/2009 8:53:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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