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Could you expand a bit of what I am supposed to be reading between the lines here? (If there's anything to read between the lines. I'm not trying to be a smar
by aerique 13y ago
Could you expand a bit of what I am supposed to be reading between the lines here? (If there's anything to read between the lines. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass going for karma here, I'm genuinely curious.)
- arethuza 13y agoThe Loch Lomond Re-advance was a relatively short period of colder weather than happened after the warming at the end of the last major ice age - this ended ~11,500 years ago. During the Loch Lomond Re-advance there was a large ice sheet in Western Scotland and smaller ones elsewhere but the country was mainly ice free. Obviously, the conditions during this time were much colder than today so flora and fauna were quite different and it took quite a long time for the species we think of as being "natural" for Scotland to re-establish themselves. So the landscape that these people would have been living in was still "recovering" from glaciation and may have been quite different to what we see today - which I find fascinating. NB I had a copy of "Land of Mountain and Flood - The Geology and Landforms of Scotland" handy when I was reading HN over breakfast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas http://www.slideshare.net/aland/loch-lomond-readvance http://www.slideshare.net/aland/loch-lomond-readvance [NB I am from the North East of Scotland and fascinated by geology and archeology - so I was pretty excited to see this on HN!]
- aerique 13y agoThank you!