Remains of 8000 year old Stone Age settlement found under English Channel

news.yahoo.com ^ | August 10, 2007 | NA

[fantom]

But have they found any traces of beer ?

[Hoffer Rand]

So how come that global warming led to “modern people blossoming” and the current trend is dire and signals the end of the world?

[SunkenCiv]

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Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8,000 Years
Science Daily | 8-5-2007
Posted on 08/06/2007 2:28:14 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877154/posts

[litehaus]

How'd they make the lobsters talk?

Told'em they'd be sent to GITMO if they didn't?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Disambiguator]

I’m amazed that no-one has posted a picture of Helen Thomas yet.

[Enchante]

Those #%$%#%# Stone Age fools must have caused some wicked global warming to get inundated like that!! Didn’t they know that all those campfires would melt the glaciers???

And who’s to blame for Britain getting separated from mainland Europe, anyway??? Surely if the EU had been around then they could have prevented this catastrophe....

[John123]

How'd they make the lobsters talk?

Told'em they'd be sent to GITMO if they didn't?

Don't be ridiculous! Canada hasn't been discovered yet.

They threaten to send them to Siberia...

[sodpoodle]

Is FEMA there yet?

[jrg]

This site was discovered accidentally by lobsters?

Maybe Chinese robsters?

[Badeye]

‘Archaeologists have found the remains of a busy Stone Age settlement dating back 8000 years on the floor of the English Channel. ‘

...and were stunned to find a Helen Thomas article written on parchment.....

[Hoosier-Daddy]

I’m surprised that the melt water didn’t wash away their carbon footprint!

[sodpoodle]

Europeans and industrious No way mate.

Europeans and grammar - don’t say much - don’t need to!!!!

nahnannynahnah;)

[colorado tanker]

"A good chunk of the material left behind from this cultural period is eventually going to be found underwater," he said.

Yep.

[Phantom Lord]

8000 years old? Impossible! The fundies keep telling me the earth is only 6000 years old.

[Sherman Logan]

Many of the valleys, such as the ones now beneath the English Channel, were eventually inundated completely when temperatures returned to normal," said Momber.

A truly classic comment. For the last 40M years or so, normal temperatures have meant massive glaciation.

The temperatures we see around us now are the exception, with the Ice Age representing something around 90% of the last 40M years.

[TigersEye]

"As the climate began to warm up near the end of the Ice Age about 10,000 years ago, people were moving into Northern Europe and settling down in the many river valleys left behind by melting glaciers. Many of the valleys, such as the ones now beneath the English Channel, were eventually inundated completely when temperatures returned to normal," said Momber.

Arghhhhh. Algore takes another arrow in the butt.

[AFreeBird]

Actually, a little of both; warming and cooling. Seems there used to be a land bridge between the continent and Britain (kinda like the one that used to be between Alaska and Siberia) long, long ago. But subsequent cooling massed ice up against it, and warming flooded it, eroding it away over time.

Or at least that was the theory postulated on the History channel show I saw a few weeks back. I forget which show.

This discovery would seem to validate the theory.

[Red Badger]

Could be the source for the Noah’s Flood Bible Story?........

[Red Badger]

I noticed that. I think they meant lobster fishermen......