Posted on 07/06/2012 10:07:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.
Divers from oil companies have found remains of a 'drowned world' with a population of tens of thousands -- which might once have been the 'real heartland' of Europe.
A team of climatologists, archaeologists and geophysicists has now mapped the area using new data from oil companies -- and revealed the full extent of a 'lost land' once roamed by mammoths...
The research suggests that the populations of these drowned lands could have been tens of thousands, living in an area that stretched from Northern Scotland across to Denmark and down the English Channel as far as the Channel Islands...
'The name was coined for Dogger Bank, but it applies to any of several periods when the North Sea was land,' says Richard Bates of the University of St Andrews. 'Around 20,000 years ago, there was a 'maximum' -- although part of this area would have been covered with ice. When the ice melted, more land was revealed -- but the sea level also rose.
'Through a lot of new data from oil and gas companies, we're able to give form to the landscape -- and make sense of the mammoths found out there, and the reindeer. We're able to understand the types of people who were there.
'People seem to think rising sea levels are a new thing -- but it's a cycle of Earth history that has happened many many times.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“I tried to warn them, and they called me a crazy fool!”
So, we have these Doggerlanders to thank for Al Gore. Sheesh!
There is a tremendous amount about humanity's past we just do not know--and few have looked beyond the conventions of what has long been accepted anthropological theory.
thanks for posting this. It reminds me of why I like to pick up arrowheads. I can think about the human who made the arrowheads and what his life was like but in his wildest imagination he could not imagine me and my world.
Thanks. Forgot about that idiot (Democrat Rep Hank Johnson).
Must see YouTube video! (no joke--he was dead serious!)
March 2010:
Democrat Representative Hank Johnson fears Guam may "tip over" and "capsize" due to overpopulation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
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http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guam+%22Hank+Johnson%22&aq=f
Sheila Jackson Lee
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district
On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]
Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee#Political_career
"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
PhD = Pathetic Helpless and Dumb
Yet these discoveries are reported in a “Gee Whiz!” fashion without any reference to the current global climate debate.
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Good point.
Of course, this find was uncovered through the work of those evil oil companies....
Thanks, and/or LOL, as appropriate!
It’s interesting to reflect on how the climate and land would have changed over time, from subarctic south of the ice to grassland as the ice retreated to the forests found underwater today. The mighty Channel River at some point widened into the English Channel. I wonder if some bright person might have warned of “climate change” as sea levels rose?
There was also an engagement during WWI where Britain chased a German squadron back to port. Odd to think about sunken ships resting on top of possible archeological sites.
True. If memory serves, an ancient wreck somewhere in the eastern Med or maybe the Aegean was found under a modern wreck, and was on top of an even more ancient wreck. It was a bad spot for many a skipper.
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