Re: Notice of revision, make that 10 k/m from sea (Was Re: Hs living in caves three miles)

http://tinyurl.com/2fw37m


"Turn the clock back to an era between 195,000 and 135,000 years ago,
and you will find Earth in the grip of an Ice Age.

So much water was locked up in glaciers that the sea level was as much
as 125 metres lower than today. When the glaciers eventually
retreated, the sea rose once more, swamping coastlines and sweeping
away the traces of habitation.

One remarkable location that survived, though, was a cave overlooking
the Indian Ocean in coastal cliffs at Pinnacle Point, near South
Africa's Mossel Bay.

The cave is so high that, even now, it is 15 metres above the sea. At
the time when it was inhabited, it was located within five to 10
kilometres of the coast."



On Oct 18, 6:42 am, Lee Olsen <paleoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/17/early.seafood.ap/index.html
"Marean figured the early people, probably women, had to trudge two to
three miles to where the mussels, clams and snails were harvested and
to bring them back to the cave."


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