… is zigzags carved onto a possibly 13,500-year-old bison bone retrieved from Doggerland.
Retrieved by Dutch fishermen.
“The oldest Dutch art,” haha, get it?
Doggerland was a fertile area inhabited by people when sea levels were much lower. It lay under what is now the North Sea. Unlike the map in the linked article, some maps show it being a vast lowland area essentially joining England with what is today Scandanavia. These maps also often show England joined to France and Ireland. Europe’s current rivers are just the headwaters of a larger river system. Of course, no one knows exactly what it would have looked like, but it’s fun to speculate.
On an evolutionary timescale, Doggerland was inhabited over millennia, millennia ago. On a young earth/catastrophic flood timescale, it could have been settled over decades or centuries by people dispersing after the flood, when the climate was cool and rainy, large glaciers formed rapidly, and sea levels were consequently much lower, exposing land bridges all over the world that facilitated humanity’s dispersion. There could have been a relatively short period of time (a few centuries?) before the climate stabilized, the glaciers melted, and sea levels rose, marooning people wherever they had ended up.
As a Dutch person myself, I think it’s incredibly clever that they call this the “oldest Dutch work of art.” I mean, given that the Dutch have reclaimed a good part of their country from the sea, why don’t we just go ahead and let them have as much of Doggerland as they can manage?
However, I disagree with some of the experts in the article that the only possible use we can imagine for zigzags is artistic or “ritual.” Following Richard M. Rudgley, other possible are uses are a calendar, music, or some other kind of scientific notation.
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With a large percent of water frozen in glaciers would that be the cause of low sea levels?
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Yes, exactly
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From what I understand scientist musty agree that at one point in Earth’s history half the world was cover in glaciers.
As the Earth’s t temperature warms up there would have been a flood or multiple floors. Yet that is not widely accepted.
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Old-earthers see a series of Ice Ages, with multiple catastrophic floods taking place locally as the glaciers melted. There is also some thought that there was a large asteroid strike, probably in Greenland, that affected the Americas, but there is no agreement on that either. There is also no explanation for why, at a time when Hudson Bay and most of Canada was buried under a glacier, Siberia was apparently ice-free. Nor for why tropical plants and lizards have been found under the ice in Antartica. Some of the anomalous things they’ve found have recently led to the “snowball earth” explanation.
Young earthers see the bands in the glacial ice cores as representing, not one winter each, but possibly one megastorm each, and there could have been multiple megastorms per month. The idea is that, in the aftermath of the Flood, which may have included catastrophic earth crust slippage, geysers, and tsunamis, there was a ton of water in the atmosphere, and the climate became very cool and rainy/snowy for several decades (centuries?) afterwards. Much of the snow that fell, ended up locked up in glaciers, which then exposed land bridges. The explanation for the baby mammoth which was frozen with spring flowers still in its mouth is a sudden catastrophic snow storm. There have also been mammoths found that were apparently suddenly buried in dust storms. Anyway, for more on this, see the multiple hours of videos on the Is Genesis History? Youtube channel.
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