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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Prehistoric landscape found below the North Sea waves

Prehistoric landscape found below the North Sea waves

A lost landscape where early humans roamed more than 8,000 years ago has been discovered beneath the British North Sea. A map of the underwater world reveals criss-crossing rivers, giant lakes and gentle hills around which hunter-gatherers made their homes toward the end of the last ice age.

The region was inundated between 18,000 and 6000 BCE, when the warming climate melted the thick glaciers that pressed down from the north. As the water rose, the great plain vanished, and slowly the contours of the British Isles and the north-west European coastline were established. Now the primitive landscape is submerged and preserved, tens of metres beneath one of the busiest seas in the world.
ER, UMM..,.THERE WERE NO SUV'S BACK THEN... SO ER, UM, WHAT HEATED UP THE WORLD'S CLIMATE, CAUSING THE GLACIERS TO MELT?!? HMMMMM. MAYBE THE SUN?!!?

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