This is historian Dan Snow inspecting the site.
Credit: Maritime Archaeological Trust
Posted on 08/22/2019 7:20:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Maritime Archaeological Trust has discovered a new 8,000 year old structure next to what is believed to be the oldest boat building site in the world on the Isle of Wight.
Director of the Maritime Archaeological Trust, Garry Momber, said "This new discovery is particularly important as the wooden platform is part of a site that doubles the amount of worked wood found in the UK from a period that lasted 5,500 years."
The site lies east of Yarmouth, and the new platform is the most intact, wooden Middle Stone Age structure ever found in the UK. The site is now 11 meters below sea level and during the period there was human activity on the site, it was dry land with lush vegetation. Importantly, it was at a time before the North Sea was fully formed and the Isle of Wight was still connected to mainland Europe.
The site was first discovered in 2005 and contains an arrangement of trimmed timbers that could be platforms, walkways or collapsed structures. However, these were difficult to interpret until the Maritime Archaeological Trust used state of the art photogrammetry techniques to record the remains...
Garry continued "The site contains a wealth of evidence for technological skills that were not thought to have been developed for a further couple of thousand years, such as advanced wood working. This site shows the value of marine archaeology for understanding the development of civilisation...
Research in 2019 was funded by the Scorpion Trust, the Butley Research Group, the Edward Fort Foundation and the Maritime Archaeology Trust. Work was conducted with the help of volunteers and many individuals who gave their time and often money, to ensure the material was recovered successfully.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
This is historian Dan Snow inspecting the site.
Credit: Maritime Archaeological Trust
So... water levels have been rising for at least 5,500 years.
With Big Media’s All Politics Against America All the Time, no one will notice anyway.
Oops, water levels have been rising for at least 2,500 years.
I had heard 13,000, but I was wrong. It was more like 16,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level#/media/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png
Thanks, yeah, I was using the article’s own numbers to refute their dogma.
Oldest site in the world!..
yet found. They always seem to leave that part off.
Some journalists / press release authors don't include it, some don't.
I have heard of underwater basket weaving but underwater boat building is a new one on me.
s/
Maybe they were trying to develop submarines.
I don’t know.
As murky as that water is, I think Dan may have discovered some more old English turds.
There must be a Department Of Turdology at Oxford or something.
They do get high marks for consistency.
Of course a stone age boat is going to be underwater!
Ya didn't expect 'em to figure it out on their first try, didja?
[[ Stone Age boat building site has been discovered underwater]]
Of course it has, stone boats didn’t float lol
They built boats out of stone? Was it in a quarry?
Stone Age stuff at the Isle of Wight. Interesting article. Amazing how advanced they were way back when.
Here’s another clip about ancient rock at the Isle of Wight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agPk4—AGhQ
(Emerson, Lake and Palmer playing their first gig ever and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970). They too were pretty advanced for way back then!
Gives meaning to your FR handle, doesn’t it, SunkenCiv?
Of course, it doesn’t say much about their choice of boat-building locations, though. Perhaps they should have considered converting their business to building prehistoric submarines.
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