When Did Humans Return After Last Ice Age? (UK)

ScienceDaily ^ | July 27, 2009 | Unknown

[decimon]

The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford University researchers, outlined in the latest issue of Quaternary Science Review, humans were living in Gough's Cave 14,700 years ago.

[decimon]

Gorging ping.

[Andyman]

Cheddar Gorge, one of the best games on “I’m Sorry, I Haven’t a Clue.”

I miss Humph.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Cheddar Gorge, huh?

Dangerously cheesy!

[Pistolshot]

Can’t be true. Earth is only 6,000 years old, or didn’t you get the memo? /s

[null and void]

They were following the møøse?

[stuartcr]

3rd week of June.

[GraceG]

>> Can’t be true. Earth is only 6,000 years old, or didn’t you get the memo? /s <<

Yeah if God were 14 billion years old he would be a really old man and his beard would be so long we could tug on it from the earth....

Personally I see God existing as the entity that kick started creation and didn’t really do much except maybe drop by now and then to check up on things and maybe send some ambassadors now and then.

[Pistolshot]

Either that or ....”Oops, what did I start?”

[SunkenCiv]

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[CholeraJoe]

You can bet that my ancestors were among the first. Probably poop-shovelers, or spear carriers...or Mammoth toe jam.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1091680/posts?page=38#38
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1357365/posts?page=43#43

and:

Axe handles dredged from North Sea win archaeology award
Dredging News Online
http://www.sandandgravel.com/news/article.asp?v1=11680

also:

More cave art discovered at Creswell Crags
17 July 2004
http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/000811.html

A team of researchers led by the University of Sheffield and supported by English Heritage have found eighty 13,000-year-old carvings in limestone rock of Church Hole Cave, at Creswell Crags in Nottinghamshire (England). The discovery comes a year after the initial discovery of 12 engraved figures, which were trumpeted as the earliest examples of prehistoric cave art in Britain.

[SunkenCiv]

oldie from the hard drive:

Caves reveal clues to UK weather
by Tom Heap

At Pooles Cavern in Derbyshire, it was discovered that the stalagmites grow faster in the winter months when it rains more. Alan Walker, who guides visitors through the caves, says the changes in rainfall are recorded in the stalactites and stalagmites like the growth rings in trees. Stalagmites from a number of caves have now been analysed by Dr Andy Baker at Newcastle University. After splitting and polishing the rock, he can measure its growth precisely and has built up a precipitation history going back thousands of years. His study suggests this autumn's rainfall is not at all unusual when looked at over such a timescale but is well within historic variations. He believes politicians find it expedient to blame a man-made change in our weather rather than addressing the complex scientific picture.

I like that closing sentence -- "future decision-making could be made based on scientific data and not on political expediency". I wouldn't count on it, but that would be great.

[Condor51]

When Did Humans Return After Last Ice Age? (UK)

It varied.
It was all dependent on when they could get the Lucas Wiring problems in their Jaguars fixed.

'The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark."'
'Lucas--inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.'
'The three-position Lucas switch--DIM, FLICKER and OFF.'
'The other three switch settings--SMOKE, SMOLDER and IGNITE.'
'The original anti-theft devices--Lucas Electric products.'
'If Lucas made guns, wars would not start either.'

Some Humans still haven't returned -- their cars are still in the shop.

[colorado tanker]

One would think people would reflect on the fact that the UK becomes inhabitable during glacial periods, which indicates it's not a particularly good idea to try to reverse the climate trend and induce one.

Fortunately anthropomorphic climate change is impossible given our technology, so it won't happen. Still, why do the maroons even try?

[ApplegateRanch]

A team of researchers led by the University of Sheffield and supported by English Heritage have found eighty 13,000-year-old carvings in limestone rock of Church Hole Cave, at Creswell Crags in Nottinghamshire (England).

My Great⁴⁴⁴-Grandfather Creswell learned, after only three failed attempts, to make his carvings on limestone rock, instead of limestone sand. He tried to tell his contemporaries the error of their ways, but they didn't listen, but now we see whose carvings lasted, and whose didn't. FAMILY VINDICATION!

[SunkenCiv]

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