Re: Questions


"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:25:14 GMT, "Inger E"
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"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:17:29 -0500, "Searles O'Dubhain"
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"Doug Weller" <dweller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:36:38 GMT, in sci.archaeology, Inger E wrote:

When was Orkney first 'colonized' or do someone at least know how
old
the
oldest known remain of a house is?

It's noted that the Faero Island had lots of sheeps running wild
when
the
first known ships passed by.
How old is the oldest known artifact found on any of the Faero
Island?


There's a UNESCO World Heritage site there, Heart of Neolithic
Orkney.
I
thought everyone here might have heard of the houses at Skara Brae,
and of
course Maeshowe, about 5000 years old. And of course the Ring of
Brodgar,
but that isn't as famous.

Doug

Amazing how these sites were there so long ago. Was the climate warmer
when they were built?


There was a particularly warm period somewhere about then, much warmer
than anything in the last 2000 years, but my hazy memory can't pin
down the date.

Anyhow in light of present days discussions re. global warming and rising
waterlevels, I think it's fair to say that during an intervall in that
warm
period the Ocean's waterlevels were 15 meter higher than today.....

Oooh ... I don't know about that.

Can you give a citation?

In Swedish? Remember that when my father started to work as one of the first
in the global environmental problematic field, almost all important works
and studies were written in Swedish. That continued to be the case long
after I myself as one of four introduced Humanecology in early 70's.....
Then there are of course one or two discussing the waterlevel problematic
higher and lower during periods at the same time as land in north, from
Scandinavia to Kamtjaka and from Alaska to Newfoundland rised, the
waterlevel lines can't be said to be as easy to follow. The last time we had
a rise in the Ocean's waterlevel started around 600 AD and continued up to
mid 1300's. Today's so called critical Ice melting in the Arctic hasn't
reached 1/3 (only 1/6) of the melted Ice -> ocean water as it was around
1100 AD......
I will return with more info but it takes some time.

Inger E



Eric Stevens


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