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faerygirl Jan 8, 2010 14:17:10
Replying to wideford

Last time I stumbled across TimeTeam they were looking at a coke can they dug up that was about 30years old. It made me want to find TOny and shake him until he realised that THIS IS NOT GOOD TELLY!

Ditto with all these bloody shows when they are diving for shipwrecks and they already know what was onboard. What a waste of money when you could be diving off the coast of Scotland or Ireland for the other stone circles that have been claimed by the sea since the last iceage. OR you could be at Yonaguni or north west India looking at ancient sites which would allow us to date them based on sea level rise.

Phew, rant over :)

T tjj
tjj Jan 8, 2010 16:37:17
Replying to faerygirl

faerygirl wrote:
Last time I stumbled across TimeTeam they were looking at a coke can they dug up that was about 30years old. It made me want to find TOny and shake him until he realised that THIS IS NOT GOOD TELLY!

Ditto with all these bloody shows when they are diving for shipwrecks and they already know what was onboard. What a waste of money when you could be diving off the coast of Scotland or Ireland for the other stone circles that have been claimed by the sea since the last iceage. OR you could be at Yonaguni or north west India looking at ancient sites which would allow us to date them based on sea level rise.

Phew, rant over :)

A 'to the point post' faerygirl. A lot of people seem to find Tony Robinson irritating but he is only human like the rest of us. Perhaps he exonerated himself for past irritations with the recent Channel 4 programme Man on Earth; I missed some of it but particularly enjoyed Episode 2 which covered the end of the last Ice Age around 7000 years ago and the loss of land that is now under the North Sea. You probably saw it but in case you didn't here is Episode 2 - the other three episodes are also available on line.
Man on Earth - Episode Two, presented by Tony Robinson

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tj

L Littlestone
Littlestone Jan 8, 2010 16:49:29
Replying to faerygirl

The Yonaguni formations really are intriguing - hard to believe they're not manmade but some think they're natural.

Interestingly, Wiki says that, "The local language, which is incomprehensible to Japanese speakers, and even to speakers of other Ryukyu languages is still spoken by a few elderly inhabitants." That could mean that it's a strong dialect, hard to understand, or it might be an unknown Chinese or even Ainu dialect (or a lost language althogether). Not sure if the Ainu were that far south though.

T tiompan
tiompan Jan 8, 2010 17:08:19
Replying to faerygirl

faerygirl wrote:
Ditto with all these bloody shows when they are diving for shipwrecks and they already know what was onboard. What a waste of money when you could be diving off the coast of Scotland or Ireland for the other stone circles that have been claimed by the sea since the last iceage. OR you could be at Yonaguni or north west India looking at ancient sites which would allow us to date them based on sea level rise.

Phew, rant over :)

The Scottish coast line is in the main higher now due to isotonic uplift after the ice .