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One million-year-old settlement uncovered in Britain
Ancient Origins ^ | January 13, 2014 | April Holloway

Posted on 01/16/2014 8:11:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

There's way too much circular reasoning goin' on 'round here!!!

Best of Foghorn Leghorn

41 posted on 01/17/2014 7:17:11 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, I don’t know that I would say the occupants of the site a million years ago were “human,” at least not in the sense of modern humans or Neanderthals.


42 posted on 01/17/2014 3:35:40 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv

later read


43 posted on 01/17/2014 3:36:39 PM PST by Ditter
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To: martin_fierro

We have a match.


44 posted on 01/17/2014 3:42:32 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I wanted to see some of the tools they found.


45 posted on 01/17/2014 4:11:56 PM PST by Ditter
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To: SunkenCiv
Related?

Stranger In A New Land

46 posted on 01/17/2014 4:16:15 PM PST by blam
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To: fishtank

The only circular argument is the denial of the age of the Earth, which is circa 4.5 billion years.


47 posted on 01/17/2014 4:39:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Gene Eric

...so far...


48 posted on 01/17/2014 5:03:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: JimSEA; The Cajun; Bigg Red; colorado tanker; Ditter; blam

Artifacts had been found in the UK in excess of 500K bp in date, and of course younger; but there is a gap in finds beginning some 1000s of years after the megaflood which separated Britain from the continent at least 200K years ago; it’s as if humans/hominids were living there and making tools, then were cut off by the new Channel, and thereafter went extinct (or moved out) for unknown reasons. Seems more likely that glaciation did what it seems to have done elsewhere — pushed the locals to lower altitudes which are now the submerged continental shelf, hence and artifact gap.

The idea that no one could use a boat that long ago of course is rubbish.

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49 posted on 01/17/2014 5:08:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Exactly! Almost all of what we know today as Great Britain is covered by an ice sheet during a glacial age. And what would have been fertile lowlands is under water. That makes it pretty tough to find the really old sites.


50 posted on 01/17/2014 5:18:38 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv
One million-year-old settlement uncovered in Britain>

Think of the back taxes....

51 posted on 01/17/2014 5:31:08 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: colorado tanker
"Exactly! Almost all of what we know today as Great Britain is covered by an ice sheet during a glacial age."

Exactly.

I've read that the northern part is still rebounding/rising while the southern part is subsiding...kinda like a see-saw after the weight of the ice was removed.

52 posted on 01/17/2014 5:55:17 PM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

Thank you, I have boxes of stone tools that I have found in south Texas and Northern Mexico. There is not much I enjoy more than arrowhead hunting! I have a number of books from UT on the subject but they are still hard to identify, I am certainly not an expert on that aspect.


53 posted on 01/17/2014 6:26:08 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Abathar

Wow, he looks...bad.


54 posted on 01/17/2014 8:44:30 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: SunkenCiv

Wow, and I always thought early humans would have still been in the African rift region at this point in time.


55 posted on 01/17/2014 8:47:17 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989
"Wow, and I always thought early humans would have still been in the African rift region at this point in time"

Check this out:

Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue To Human Origins

56 posted on 01/18/2014 8:59:00 AM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

I think your date for the age of the earth may be off a bit


57 posted on 01/18/2014 3:46:48 PM PST by stockpirate (It appears good men have decided to do nothing, so evil is prevailing......)
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