Skip to comments.
Prehistoric Knives Suggest Humans Competed
Discovery ^
| 2-1-2005
| Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 02/02/2005 10:06:38 AM PST by blam
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-30 last
To: blam
I like the way you put quotes on "drifted". I'd put quotes on "British Isles" too
Just 10k years ago the "isles" were a peninsula. At 50k y.a. they may have been a lake.
That's why I doubt they were islands off the coast of Normandy as far back as 400k y.a.
To: expat_panama
"I like the way you put quotes on "drifted". I'd put quotes on "British Isles" too " LOL. I know about the Ice Age connections. I suppose I should have said 'from a GPS mark 400,000 years ago to a GPS mark today', there is about a 12.5 mile difference.
22
posted on
02/03/2005 4:30:25 PM PST
by
blam
To: Question_Assumptions
Try and visit the Battlefield at Princeton. There you can visit the Ford farmhouse and stand in the room that Gen. Mercer died in. When I went there, the caretaker noticed that I was looking at the floor. He said to me "Don't bother looking; they sanded the floors in the '70s when they redid the house."
For years Hugh Mercer's blood stained the plank floors until they foolishly sanded it away.
23
posted on
02/04/2005 7:52:55 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(The American Military: The World's Greatest Force for Freedom)
To: expat_panama
Interesting that this map depicts so much change in the NW, whereas the Mediterranean has such little change.
24
posted on
02/04/2005 7:59:04 AM PST
by
unspun
(unspun.info | Did U work your precinct, churchmembers, etc. for good votes?)
To: unspun
I copied it from "Europe - a History" by Davies (a Brit). There may have been a tad "britrocentrism" in the making of the map.
Then again, there simply may have been more changes that side of the continent. Remember the channel itself didn't occur until about 4000 BC, and we're still having big changes with the Dutch coast (besides the dikes).
To: blam
i love the fact that someone here actually takes the time to figure our how far an island would move in 400k thanks for the perspective!
To: blam
Stringer added, "At this time in Europe, Homo heidelbergensis was giving way, or evolving, into Neanderthals. There are hints gleaned from comparing bits of their bones and tools that we have found in Britain and the continent that there may be separate species of this creature: one that made hand-axes and one that did not. This is one of the big questions of human evolution studies today and a major focus for our work." Is this science?
27
posted on
02/07/2005 7:09:35 PM PST
by
jwalsh07
To: Docbarleypop
"i love the fact that someone here actually takes the time to figure our how far an island would move in 400k thanks for the perspective!" LOL. You can find it all here. Africa and South America broke apart about 120 million years ago. They've been drifting apart at about the same rate as you fingernails grow each year.
28
posted on
02/07/2005 9:40:05 PM PST
by
blam
To: expat_panama
"Just 10k years ago the "isles" were a peninsula. At 50k y.a. they may have been a lake." Click here to see a map of the world with the ocean level reduced by about 300ft...then, imagine it reduced by 500ft as some believe it was during the Ice Age, Glacial Maximum.
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) occured about 18,000 years ago.
29
posted on
02/07/2005 9:47:33 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Thanks. I'm so crazy about maps I became a civil engineer.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-30 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson