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Stone Age satnav: Did ancient man use 5,000-year-old travel chart to navigate across Britain
The Daily Mail ^ | 15 Sep 2009 | David Derbyshire

Posted on 09/15/2009 1:13:16 PM PDT by BGHater

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1 posted on 09/15/2009 1:13:17 PM PDT by BGHater
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To: SunkenCiv

GPS ping


2 posted on 09/15/2009 1:13:39 PM PDT by BGHater (Insanity is voting for Republicans and expecting Conservatism.)
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To: BGHater

I think my TomTom maps ARE 5,000 years old.


3 posted on 09/15/2009 1:15:55 PM PDT by alancarp (Obama: treat the unborn with AT LEAST as much respect as you do terrorists!!)
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To: BGHater

Nothing new in this....ley lines have been mentioned for many years. They were in use thousands of years ago and will still be reliable in the future


4 posted on 09/15/2009 1:19:18 PM PDT by the long march
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To: alancarp
My family came from Gloustershire, seems that they erected defenses to keep the frogs out.
5 posted on 09/15/2009 1:28:13 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: zot

navigation ping


6 posted on 09/15/2009 1:31:50 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: BGHater

Nope - I think they were smelling haggis from different camps.


7 posted on 09/15/2009 1:33:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: the long march

Are we there yet,are we there yet-Shut-up Grog and keep walking!


8 posted on 09/15/2009 1:33:41 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: BGHater

People have been very smart for a very long time. Treating our progenitors as anything less is simply wrong IMO.


9 posted on 09/15/2009 1:35:54 PM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost
You make a very good point...Man was never "brainless"...

We recognize that man's limits extend waaaaaaaay beyond any ape.

We recognize that an ape does not progress beyond the nature around him...unless one is systematically taught.

Even so, an ape cannot achieve man's intelligence.

Since so called "evolution" cannot stand still, it would seem that some ape, somewhere, here on earth would be still evolving toward being a man.

10 posted on 09/15/2009 2:15:15 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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We`kilt em. Real good like.


11 posted on 09/15/2009 2:16:49 PM PDT by allmost
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To: BGHater

The way to verify if this was a system or not should be relatively easy. If the purpose of ‘A’ and ‘B’ is navigation, then check out the path between ‘A’ and ‘B’. If you consider the immense labor involved in building such points, then either there was a great deal of traffic, or the points had a significance other than navigation.

I suspect there was another reason, because ordinary road markers are a much easier way of doing this, and were pretty common in the ancient world.


12 posted on 09/15/2009 2:27:30 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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13 posted on 09/15/2009 5:45:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: allmost

I always wonder how many times human civilizations rose and fell before our latest burst of growth and advancement during the climatological stability of the last 3,000 years.

People think I’m a bit crazy when I suggest that much of humanity’s history is probably buried under tons of water on the continental shelves.


14 posted on 09/15/2009 5:50:56 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: alancarp

You shoulda bought a Garmin.

I’m pretty sure there are things on my Nuvi 500’s TOPO map that don’t even exist yet...;-D


15 posted on 09/15/2009 6:13:53 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.........)
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To: coconutt2000
I always wonder how many times human civilizations rose and fell before our latest burst of growth and advancement during the climatological stability of the last 3,000 years.

People think I’m a bit crazy when I suggest that much of humanity’s history is probably buried under tons of water on the continental shelves.


I often wonder that myself. Sometimes I wonder if there were advanced human civilizations here on Earth that ended up being destroyed by natural or man-made catastrophies prior to our own.
16 posted on 09/15/2009 6:14:26 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Woodrow Wilson should have been waterboarded.)
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To: BGHater

That reminds me of a fibonacci spiral.


17 posted on 09/15/2009 6:20:55 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Resident Obama: Not a President, not a Citizen, living here but from somewhere else...)
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To: Nowhere Man

It’s been discussed on FR on these types of threads before, but the ancient Veda texts from India describe things that sound very much like nuclear war. I’ve also read there are places over there where there is glass under the sand and it has residual radioactivity higher than the ambient terrain.


18 posted on 09/15/2009 6:23:35 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Resident Obama: Not a President, not a Citizen, living here but from somewhere else...)
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To: Nowhere Man

I don’t know about “advanced” although I think writing was probably discovered and lost multiple times.

Human ingenuity seems to follow a fairly regular pattern with the transition from hunter gatherer to agriculture, and then the formation of larger and larger settlements, the development of math and then the application of both written language and math to try and predict seasons more accurately, and not always in that order.


19 posted on 09/15/2009 6:27:46 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Free Vulcan

The Veda, go into depth about UFO’s and other things.


20 posted on 09/15/2009 6:27:55 PM PDT by BGHater (Insanity is voting for Republicans and expecting Conservatism.)
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