fitzcoraldo
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World's oldest tree
Apr 19, 2008, 11:51
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Interesting article from yesterdays Telegraph
‘The world’s oldest living tree has been found in Sweden, a tenacious spruce which took root just after the end of the last ice age’
The tree is 9,550 years old and was found amongst a ‘cluster of around 20 spruces over 8,000 years old.’
The bit that caught my eye was,
‘Ten millennia ago, a spruce would have been extremely rare and it is conceivable that the ancient humans who lived there imported the tree.’
good eh?
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dodge one
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Edited Apr 19, 2008, 11:58
Re: World's oldest tree
Apr 19, 2008, 11:55
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Yggdrassill Perhaps? Actually no, I just checked up on my norse mythos and found same tree described as an ASH. Hmm.
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fitzcoraldo
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Re: World's oldest tree
Apr 19, 2008, 12:19
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Hi Dodge
lots of interesting ideas crop up.
One I was thinking about was the 'Ur-Tree' of stonehenge and the speculation that this tree and the later aligned 8th millennium postholes may have been the foundation of the whole monument complex. Obviously it's a quite a leap of imagination but it's nice to speculate.
cheers
fitz
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