[blam]

Would'nt a title like this be more correct: Evidence Of Early Fire Use Found

[billorites]

"Would'nt a title like this be more correct: Evidence Of Early Fire Use Found "

Unless it was in the NY Post, In which case it would be along the lines of...

Ash Stash in Brit's Pit

[stands2reason]

I'm enjoying the new British discoveries in archaeology! Islands hold a special place when it comes to studying history. Separated from the mainland, they'll often preserve features that haven't been run over roughshod by conqueror after conqueror after conqueror.

[farmfriend]

do you want this one pinged

[DefCon]

This just in from the department of
"somebody stuck a microphone in my face and I
had to say something without thinking about it"...
- - -
"...The presence of charcoal suggests the people there made fires..."
(Is there some other non-fire related way to make charcoal?)
- - -
"...It would seem natural as the climate was cold and damp at the time..."
(And England's climate is now NOT cold and damp and fire is no longer needed?)

[TrebleRebel]

Prehistoric peer pressure (Gary Larson)

[edwin hubble]

Good post.

But these were our species...
but not our subspecies ('modern humans', homo sapiens sapiens) were they?

(info from this site:
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learnmodules/top_longfor/timeline/timeline.html

Homo sapiens (unspecified subspecies) - 400,000 to 200,000 years BCE
Homo sapiens neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years BCE
Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years BCE to present

[mgstarr]

Wait - isn't this just more deception? Afterall, the earth is only 5,000 to 7,000 years old.

Sorry, couldn't resist. Just thought I'd get a jump on the strict Creationists before they showed up on this thread.

[GreenHornet]

Rumor has it they also found a half empty can of charcoal lighter and a 250,000 year old bug zapper at the site.

[Graybeard58]

"The site was next to a tributary of the River Avon"

Nothing to do with the post but I have a question: I have heard the River Avon pronounced as A Von, like the comestic and also pronounced A Vun, both by british people on tv. Which is correct?

[Junior]

Ping.

[wideminded]

Charcoal deposits that might date back between 250,000 and 300,000 years ago, were discovered in Harnham, a village one mile south of Salisbury on South Wiltshire's Chalklands, England. ...

Excavation also uncovered animal bones, such as horse bones, and 44 "very rare" flint hand axes — the earliest form of tool used by man.

Flint occurs as "nodules" within chalk deposits. Flint was eventually traded but at this very early date perhaps only those who lived right on top of the chalk were able to make flint tools.