“early hunter gatherer groups returning to Britain after the Ice Age”
I’m not familiar with the pre-history/history of Britain before the arrival of the Romans, so at the risk of looking clueless-does anyone know where these hunter gatherers went to wait out the Ice Age? It isn’t like there was a tropical resort within reach...
three places, known as ‘Ice Age Refuges’. One would be the Cantabrian coast of Spain, and further down, the second would be around the Balkans and I think the third was south of the Alps, somebody correct me if I am wrong. DNA studies however show that many remained in the ice-free zones of the Russian/Siberian tundra and hunted Mammoths.
Britain during the ice Ages was covered in ice down to about Kent. When it drew back the people followed the herds out of the refuges and voila, flints and charcoal in the British Isles.
Some lower latitude or lower altitude, or both. :’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/doggerland/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1540524/posts
early humans were living in Britain around 700,000 years ago
400,000-year-old remains of a massive elephant
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dietandcuisine/index
Front Garden Yields Ancient Tools (250,000 Years-Old, UK)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1652623/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/990354/posts
Taking into account they were Brits, most likely they did back then what they still do today.
"Flew into Miami Beach BOAC...."
But since this was in the pre-BOAC era, flying wouldn't have been an option.
So they would have trekked across any of the various land bridges to Miami, to wait out the Ice Age.
Don't forget that most water on the earth back then was locked up in glaciers, so the oceans were teeny tiny, and land bridges were sprouting out of the mud just about everywhere you looked.
No, I don't remember exactly where I heard this; likely on "Doctor Science"?
They came from what is now the Basque area of Spain. Walked up the coast to the area before the ocean level rose.
England use to float closer to Africa by the Rock of Gibraltar but broke loose during a storm and ended up in it’s present location.
Now if the English can just get itself off the rocks it washed up on using some unobtainium tow ropes then they can move back to a warmer climate.