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Lol .RS .You can even get New Age Hyacinths .

George

Um... "Two pieces of flint unearthed at motorway works in Dartford, Kent, have now been dated to 110,000 years ago. " There have been repeated glacial periods ( and warming periods ) and this article is not talking about the last one. It seems likely that sea level rose and fell with each...

The English Channel would have posed a physical barrier to humans trying to cross from the continent. Unless they had BOATS!!!! The channel only came into existence 10,000 yeras ago .Before Britain was connected to continenatl Europe by Doggerland . Fisherman in the present channel find artefacts a...

There were Homo heidelbergensis finds from Boxgrove approx 500,000BP.

George

Looks great .Have a good time .

George

Sandstone . the vast majority of rock art sites in Britain and western Europe are non -representational
cups and cups and rings . Sedimantary rocks are much easier to engrave .

George

Thought you might like to be among the first in possibly a very long time (unrecorded and unlikely to have been noticed considering it's situation and unspecatacular engravings ) to have a look .
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/sit ... logie.html

George

Over the years one forgets the majority of them . 0.5 % might actually prove to have a grain of truth and resulting in the "there' are more things in heaven ....." being quoted , usually out of context or "they laughed at ...."

George

An old chestnut but " truth is stranger than fiction ", give me an excavation report anyday it's far exciting than tedious agenda driven pseudoscience .

George

Rokcet Scientist wrote:

Sam Salmon wrote:The first fences were almost certainly built to stop the depredations of wild animals on crops.

I bet the very first writing was "NO TRESPASSING", or more coloquially: "FUCK OFF"...

Surely a picture of a skull with an arrow through it .

George

I can't say I enjoyed it it but it certainly annoyed a lot of people . Mark Horton iirc was an advisor and he got a lot of stick .

George

What I rememeber of it was that it was cheap and cheerful and treated critically as if it was "serious " .

George

Hello! Just dropping by with this one, as I thought it might be of interest to you good folk over here. I'm in touch with the independent scholar, John Feliks, who has been researching early human cognition for the past 15 years. His first paper, The Graphics of Bilzingsleben , shows the advanced m...

11,500' is close to the max depth for a modern drillship. I'm not sure they could operate and produce from that depth safely but they can certainly do some good science. We *do* need a geology thread! Geo-Archaeology anyone? In the old world at least it's apparent that the geology of the engraved r...

Hello folks , and thanks Michelle for having me .As a newbie thought I should introduce myself and interests . I live in the old world ,UK , main interests are rock art (particularly non-representational i.e. cups ,rings ,meanders etc ) British and European Mesolithic-Neolithic transition ,archaeo-a...