700,000 years and counting
I was quite excited to see a story on the BBC about the discovery of some 700,000 year old flint tools on a site in Britain. I thought, wow, we’ve been on this beautiful island for at least 700,000 years!
Then I realised that, whilst neothilic man was skinning a water vole down in Suffolk, the future location of my house and good area south of it was buried deep beneath a glacier. Oh.
Dina says:
Well, on the up side, the weather under a glacier must’ve been fairly predictable. You’d have always know how to dress for when you left the house.
Dina spoke at 07:41 UTC on December 15th, 2005 link