Posted on 06/01/2010 8:27:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Francis Wenban-Smith from the University of Southampton discovered two ancient flint hand tools used to cut meat at the M25/A2 road junction at Dartford, Kent, during an excavation funded by the Highways Agency. Tests on sediment burying the flints showed they date from around 100,000 years ago - proving Neanderthals were living in Britain at this time. The country was previously assumed to have been uninhabited during this period... Early pre-Neanderthals inhabited Britain before the last ice age, but were forced south by the severe cold about 200,000 years ago. When the climate warmed up again between 130,000 and 110,000 years ago... the Channel sea-level was raised... One theory is that Neanderthals were attracted back to Kent by the flint-rich chalk downs which were visible from France. These supported herds of mammoth, rhino, horse and deer - an important source of food in sub-arctic conditions back then... Dr Wenban-Smith explained more evidence was needed to date their presence more accurately, to show how many were living in Kent at this time, how far they roamed into Britain and how long they stayed for.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Given the state of the UK economy, one could make an argument that Neanderthal man is still there. But we all know that Neanderthal man has taken over the democratic party and controls the WH.
They returned in the late 20th century and have now all but completely taken over the country.
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They got there by boat.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127] |
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Bump to that!
I guess Heidelberg Man either was not a tool user or was extinct by this date.
This was what I was thinking too & the previous Prime Minister Gordon Brown could certainly pass as a Neanderthal.
thanks for the links
*kof-kof*
I want my mommie..
How the HELL is Keith Richards alive? A pact with the Devil?
See! the moslems own England.
:’) Generally, the older the era, the fewer the people; clearly there must be either something a little wrong with that statement, *or* there was a long, long, long period of stasis, *or* there have been a number of waves of population growth terminated by some natural event; reaching a theoretical first mating pair wouldn’t take that many generations. :’)
Anyway, with fewer people, there are fewer remains to find because fewer were made in the first place — give or take having the ancestors’ former habitat covered by the oceans now because they lived on what is now the continental shelf.
Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil [ dredged up from the North Sea ]
BBC | Monday, June 15, 2009 | Paul Rincon
Posted on 06/15/2009 8:19:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2272129/posts
Well, there's that for sure. Another issue is that the glaciers grind and "scrub" the British Isles every 100,000 years or so. I wonder how many traces of our civilization will be left in Britain after the next one?
Like you, my antennae go up when anyone suggest a "long period of stasis." The one constant in human history and earth history seems to be change.
:’) Go ‘head.
;’)
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