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I can feel that spear talking to me ~ explaining why I, and so many other people, need “Viking Hand” genes!
http://www.archive.org/stream/earthupheaval010880mbp/earthupheaval010880mbp_djvu.txt
EARTH IN UPHEAVAL
EXCERPT:
The North Sea
The stormy North Sea, bordered by Scotland, England,
the Low Countries, Germany, Denmark, and Norway, is a very recent basin. The geologists assume that the area
was once before occupied by a sea, but that early in the
Ice Age the detritus carried from Scotland and Scandi-
navia filled it, so that there was no sea left: it was all
turned into land. The river Rhine flowed through this
land and the Thames was its tributary; the mouth of the
river was somewhere near Aberdeen.
In post-glacial times, so it is assumed, in the Subboreal
period, which began about 2000 years before the present
era and endured to about 800, large parts of the area
were added to the sea. The Atlantic Ocean sent its waters
along the Scottish and Norwegian shores, and also through
the Channel that had been formed only a short while
before. Human artifacts and bones of land animals were
dredged from the bottom of the North Sea; and along
the shores of Scotland and England, as well as on the
Dogger Bank in the middle of the sea, stumps of trees with
their roots still in the ground were found. Forty-five miles from the coast, from a depth of thirty-six meters, Norfolk fishermen drew up a spearhead carved from the antler of a deer, embedded in a block of peat. 1 This artifact dates from the Mesolithic or early Neolithic Age and serves as one of many proofs that the area covered by the North Sea was a place of human habitation not many thousands of years ago. From the analysis of the pollens found in the peat taken from the bottom of the sea, the conclusion was reached that these forests existed in not too remote times. It has also been assumed that the building of large areas of the North Sea in the Subboreal period resulted from a rather sudden sinking of the land, which some authorities date at about 1500, or a little earlier, at the same time that floods destroyed the lake dwellings of central Europe.
If we consider that Phoenician vessels were already
visiting the Atlantic coast of Europe in the days of the
Middle Kingdom in Egypt, or before 1500, we begin
to see in its historical perspective the catastrophe that
spread the North Sea over inhabited land. The submerged
land must have been occupied by human settlements of
the Mesolithic and Neolithic ages, whereas Egypt and
Phoenicia had already reached the Middle Bronze.
The sea did not slowly encroach, finally to evict the
population of the settlements; it entered the land without
much warning, and sent its dark billows rolling to find
new barriers. The Dogger Bank may have stood out for
some time longer, but at last it, too, was taken over by
the sea...
PUBLISHED IN 1956
Was this a keychain for the SUV. Obviously the norsmen were up to no good to cause all of that sea level rising.
BTW, ping.
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