Re: Running Aground

Martin <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 22 Nov 2005 23:13:54 -0800, "Dan" <danny_deever2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Pete Verdon wrote:
> >> Alan S wrote:
> >> > Using a lead line to survey the area is also good knowledge to have,
> >> > thanks for the input.
> >>
> >> This is news to you?
> >
> >Come on - people have only been using lead line [1] since the stone
> >age. This guy is clearly posting from Wales or the North - it's gonna
> >take them a while to advance their technology to that level!
> >
> >[1] Although in the stone age I suspect it was referred to as a 'stone'
> >line.
>
> In the BBC's "Coast" program they claimed that an open cast bronze age
> mine in Wales produced enough copper to make 10,000,000 axes.
> I think that was more than the population of Europe at the time. They

Well, in Scandinavia we have more than one cell pnone per capita.

> were obviously making copper lead lines with the copper and using
> inferior bronze age string for the line. This would explain why UK
> isn't littered with millions of bronze axe heads.

Maybe they recycled them :-)

Side note: There will be little left of our own time for future
archeoligists to dig into. We use plastic food containers rather
than pottery. We print books and newspaper on paper but rarely use stone.
Recycling is bad for future hoistorians :-)

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