Evidence of Ice Age hunters: hand axes
Thu, Mar 13, 2008
Post filled in: Archaeology, Discoveries
An amateur Dutch archaeologist named Jan Meulmeester made a startling find which pleases scientists: an amazing collection of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old. He found them in an area about 13km off Great Yarmouth.
Jan Meulmeester diggs regularly for mammoth bones and fossils in marine sand and gravel delivered the materials, but nobody expected him to find something of this significance. These are the finest hand axes ever to be found from the Ice Age and from the English waters. Phil Harding of Wessex Archaeology and Channel 4’s Time Team programme has studied the Ice Age for a big part of his life. His claim on the issue:
“These finds are massively important. In the Ice Age the cold conditions meant that water was locked up in the ice caps. The sea level was lower then, so in some places what is now the seabed was dry land. The hand-axes would have been used by hunters in butchering the carcasses of animals like mammoths.”
He added: “Although we don’t yet know their precise date, we can say that these hand-axes are the single most important find of Ice Age material from below the North Sea.”
The fact that mammoth teeth and bones were discovered along with the axes seems to support his ideas. The findings were made public by Wessex Archaeology. Also, Ian Oxley, Head of Maritime Archaeology at English Heritage points out the importance of these findings:
“These are exciting finds which help us gain a greater understanding of The North Sea at a time when it was land. We know people were living out there before Britain became an island, but sites actually proving this are rare.”
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Andrei is no scientist, but from an early age, he has been fascinated by science; that's why he went to college, and signed up for Geophysics. Feeling that there's a huge gap between science and average people, he rallied TP, started ZME Science, and gave it a green twist too.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 10:29 pm
…turtle=ayotl(N)=heart of water neandra was in the levant at
100k bc, using ochre(E)=ocre(sp)=oc(r)elix celia(N)=reblossom,
resusitate on their burials. as in the lagar velho child burial
(26k bc)where ochre rabbit bones on the child’s ankle numbered
8=toca/tochtli(N/8souls)=rabbit. in the levant, zagros mts, iraq,
the shanidar 4 flower burial has 8 types of medicinal plants,
8 later becomes metis/metl(N)=maguey plant, wife of the medicine
god patecatl/patrick(E), and in myth is the mother of athena.
the bracket pelvis of a deer was around the lagar velho child suggesting rebirth through the totem animal of the altai mts,
which mts are the eastern limit for neander/neandra’s range.
england=e(n)c/g(l)a(n)tl/t/d(letra)=ecatl(N/2souls)=wind,
full name=ecatlan(N)=windland is a paradise of layered stone
apt for knapping(pun). mammoth hunting in that area may imply
they were able to make boats out of the skin, ivory, bones…
new materials promoted by their hunt may have developed a
neander elite because of new technology powered by success,
and points to an early north atlantic crossing.
…oh, forgot to mention the tonalamatl/souls calendar in
connexion with shanidar 4’s 8flower burial. let’s look into
the tona to see where 8 xochitl/flower is:
the last day of the sample/cempoalli=20=xochitl, ah, it’s
60days inside, hmmm, 1 8 2 9cipactli, which leads off the tona
as day cipactli is first digit, whereas xochitl is the 20th.
so 8 flower is in the trecena(13days)of, hmmm, 9cipactl 5ollin
Acatl, hmm, acatl is the sun/ruling sign day 13 in the sample,
and 5th trecean(13)(lord of the center is mictlantecuhtli, deathlord)in the order of trecenas(20 trecenas and 20days).
we divide 60 by nine to get the nightgods=the remainder=6,
well, 6=deathlord of the day gods but is seagoddess of nightgods, hmmm, whether neandra used a fully developed calendar is doubtful, but she would have number values down, 5=deathlord as center,
but i have a jade hunting talisman of a small winged duck with
a hole in it=burial offering, and it has 6 scratches(for luck in hunting death). shanidar 4 was the leader? acatl(N)=sceptre and sunsign. it is the sun symbol, the spear symbol/phallic rebirth(snake=day5), but it implies a conscious heirarchy among neanderthals, sungod for sure and definitely use of the tonalamatl at 80k bc. by 26bc the deer pelvis at lagar velho shows the tonalamatl becoming the deer calendar we have today, that quetzalcoatl brought to amerindia, 3309bc. quite a journey for
the oldest calendric system in the world, carried for thousands
of years in the large mind of neandra/neanderthal then passed
through the sieve of the alphabet to modern man, the beginning
of mathematics and the weighing of phenomena. yes, truly our
prometheus for all we have today, begun then, 80k bp, near
eden. tks.