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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One rabbit stew coming up!
These were Neolithic Europeans - the same who built stonehenge. They had probably been there a few thousand years earlier and were related to both modern day English/Welsh folks and to the Basque peoples.
They weren’t “Celts” - Indo-Europeans hadn’t even emerged 9000 years ago and were probably part of a group that became Hurrian, Finno-Ugric etc. (that latter is my guess).
The people are most likely still there - i.e. their descendants are still there. They progressively became Celticized, Anglicized etc. etc.
Craftsman.......................
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