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[Genesis Veracity]

Ok Bucky boy, let's see your, I'm sure profound, definition of "religious fanatic" (this ought to be good).

[Jimit]

Hi Bucky,
I had to trawl through my memory for the answer to your question but I'm pretty sure that this is what you were looking for...  http://www.absolutea...he_cloggies.htm  
Jim.  

[Nigel]

The thought of the London Olympics opening with 14,000 shin kickers has suddenly transformed this thread from deeply turgid and depressing into a thing of joy. Thankyou!

Lord Redesdale is secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group and ought to know better. Morris Dancing is of dubious British pedigree. Shin kicking on the other hand is inarguably a sport, is quintissentially English and neatly embodies our two most prominent national characteristics - an indomitable bulldog spirit together with a deep vein of total stupidity. It could be a very long opening ceremony....

[belshade]

The outcome of discussion on this topic would appear to be that there is a difference of opinion between archaeologists and those who study the history of climate. In Brittany and elsewhere in the world there is evidence of stone alignments continuing off-shore. This would normally be interpreted as an indication of a rise in sea levels some time after construction. If we date such structures to around 2000 BC this seems to have little to do with the end of the last Ice Age.
    
   I am following the theory that stone circles and alignments are a later and more sophisticated form of astronomically-based structures than the more rigid passage monuments of the post-4000 BC era. But even if by any stretch of the imagination they pre-dated the passage monuments by as much as 4000 years they would still have been clear of the high tide mark.

   One explanation given is a sinking of land masses over the millennia - a process said to be going on in the English Channel/North Sea area even today. Perhaps this could have been accentuated by earthquakes? Or was there a second global warming period post 4000 BC which flooded coastsl sites?

   Belshade.

[BuckyE]

I'm kind of on the run, but just quick...

There seems to be some cornfusion about the sea level rise thing. It's still going on, you know. There are roads built in the 1930's on the eastern seaboard of the US, specifically Bethany Beach, Delaware, that are now under water due to sea level rise. Loie and I have seen the old asphalt wif' our own eyes. Go to http://www.homepage......static Change for a primer. The rate of rise is much slower now, but the sea has been rising for 20,000 years. It didn't all of a sudden spring up all at once "at the end of the Ice Age."

And yes, some places sank relative to the center of the earth, some have risen, it's a complex world.

[BuckyE]

Oh, they were CLOG dancers. No WONDER I couldn't find it. I was looking for MORRIS dancers. Yes, thank you, Jimit, Bill Tidy was the artist, it's all coming back now. Ahhh. Well, it has been almost twenty years since I've seen it. OK, now I'll get some info. Thanks. (I knew one of you nuts would remember that comic strip.)

And what was with the ferrets?

Hey, I don't make this stuff up. I hope you've all been to the 2012 references and are preparing to gird your loins for a heck of a year. Swinging London indeed. It just occurs to me that we'll need to have a big Avebury meet before the Games open, right? Let's just hope we don't get TOO many Lancastrians.

[Genesis Veracity]

Well now Bucky, if sea level has risen in under a hundred years to cover roads, then, according to your thesis of a slow sea level rise over 20,000 years because the Ice Age is supposedly still ending, the sea level rose about five feet to cover the roads, and so, 5 feet every 100 years plays-out to 1,000 feet of sea level rise in 20,000 years, and at that rate, all of the Roman buidings which were built near the shore should now be at least 20 feet underwater.

Your "primer" obviously needs much priming.

[yogro]

Of course, it's obvious. if you see yourself going backwards in time then you can check yourself out on the way there and make sure you've got enough to afford the trip back. Unfortunately, G.V. I believe you are repeating yourself. Don't you  recall that day, when Derek Taylor, England football manager  said to you after the Brazil game 'Genesis are you not infallible?'...and you replied...'Derek, your "primer" obviously needs much priming.'

May I add, I am and always will be an outstanding admirer of your footballing skills.

[Genesis Veracity]

Why has BuckyE not responded to my rebuttal to his specious notion that the Ice Age has been ending for the last 20,000 years?