There's way too much circular reasoning goin' on 'round here!!!
Posted on 01/16/2014 8:11:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists believe they have found the birthplace of British civilisation, and it is underneath a £15-a-night caravan park in Norfolk, England. Discoveries at the site include one million-year-old artefacts and fossilised animal remains, which are the oldest ever found in the UK. Scientists now believe that it was the first, or one of the first settlement sites of early humans in Britain.
Although researchers are yet to uncover any human remains from our predecessors, it is believed the site currently lying beneath Manor Caravan Park in Happisburgh, Norfolk, was a settlement created by early human relatives, such as Homo erectus. "We don't know which species of early human first came to Britain so my dream is to find a fossil human at Happisburgh," said Chris Stringer, research leader in human origins at the Natural History Museum. The complete findings are set to be revealed next month in Natural History Museum’s exhibition: ‘Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story’, where more than 200 specimens and objects will be on display.
"Happisburgh could be the first place where humans settled in Britain,” said Stringer. “We have some spectacular finds of tools and the fossils of butchered animals beneath cliffs in front of what is now partly a holiday caravan park. We think the site where they lived was on the river Thames, which flowed out into the North Sea at that point."
The landscape in Norfolk at the time would have been covered with thick forest and populated with dangerous predators such as sabre-toothed tigers and hyenas. However, it was also a rich hunting ground full of mammoths, bison, deer, and horses. The early humans living at the time would also have been able to walk to mainland Europe as one million years ago, Kent was connected to Germany.
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Well, I don’t know that I would say the occupants of the site a million years ago were “human,” at least not in the sense of modern humans or Neanderthals.
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We have a match.
I wanted to see some of the tools they found.
The only circular argument is the denial of the age of the Earth, which is circa 4.5 billion years.
...so far...
Artifacts had been found in the UK in excess of 500K bp in date, and of course younger; but there is a gap in finds beginning some 1000s of years after the megaflood which separated Britain from the continent at least 200K years ago; it’s as if humans/hominids were living there and making tools, then were cut off by the new Channel, and thereafter went extinct (or moved out) for unknown reasons. Seems more likely that glaciation did what it seems to have done elsewhere — pushed the locals to lower altitudes which are now the submerged continental shelf, hence and artifact gap.
The idea that no one could use a boat that long ago of course is rubbish.
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Exactly! Almost all of what we know today as Great Britain is covered by an ice sheet during a glacial age. And what would have been fertile lowlands is under water. That makes it pretty tough to find the really old sites.
Think of the back taxes....
Exactly.
I've read that the northern part is still rebounding/rising while the southern part is subsiding...kinda like a see-saw after the weight of the ice was removed.
Thank you, I have boxes of stone tools that I have found in south Texas and Northern Mexico. There is not much I enjoy more than arrowhead hunting! I have a number of books from UT on the subject but they are still hard to identify, I am certainly not an expert on that aspect.
Wow, he looks...bad.
Wow, and I always thought early humans would have still been in the African rift region at this point in time.
Check this out:
I think your date for the age of the earth may be off a bit
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