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Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 05, 2010, 21:44
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Great news - thanks for that!
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faerygirl
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Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 08, 2010, 14:17
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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 :)
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tjj
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Edited Jan 08, 2010, 17:09
Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 08, 2010, 16:37
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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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Littlestone
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Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 08, 2010, 16:49
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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.
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tiompan
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Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 08, 2010, 17:08
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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 .
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tjj
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Edited Jan 08, 2010, 18:03
Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 08, 2010, 17:47
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tiompan wrote: 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 .
I couldn't find anything specific to the Scottish coastline but here is something about the Swedish coastline which is probably similar.
Hoga Kusten (The High Coast)page 93
bw
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tiompan
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Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 08, 2010, 17:54
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tjj wrote: tiompan wrote: 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 .
I couldn't find anything specific to the Scottish coastline but here is something about the Swedish coastline which is probably similar.
Hoga Kusten (The High Coast)
EDIT: The link doesn't seem to work - sorry ('twas an interesting read anyway)
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Some areas like Orkney didn't "bounce back " as much and amy ahve have higher sea levels today but they are the minority . Still rising I think .
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tiompan
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Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 08, 2010, 17:56
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I would edit spelling mistakes but don't know how 1)spell .2)edit .
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StoneGloves
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Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 08, 2010, 18:02
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I guess it might be worth downloading one or two back editions of Time Team - theone on the island hut settlement stands out. Have a look for a CoasttoCoast broadcast about microwaves - it's quite worrying. Never mind Timewatch - what's that extinct American cowboy show with Ian McShane called? (It's not Torchwood). There's three series 'up there' - they'd take a few coffees to download!
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tjj
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Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 08, 2010, 18:17
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tiompan wrote: I would edit spelling mistakes but don't know how 1)spell .2)edit .
I've got the link to work now in my original post, one of those online books.
I don't think you make spelling mistakes Tiompan - they just look like the sort of simple typos I make all the time. Finding out how to edit was a double edged sword for me and after a recent hiccup I now try not to do it too often. Its easy to do if you need to though - log into 'head to head' (on the yellow bar) with your usual user ID and password - select the post you want to edit, click on 'edit' then resend after you've made any changes.
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