What Europe looked like 12,000 years ago http://education.nationalgeographic.com/maps/doggerland/ … #archaeologypic.twitter.com/IKHk8gZecf
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@caitlinrgreen @ticiaverveer @TeaJunkie1 Tea Junkie lives there & is a retired (almost) history prof! Do tell us more!
@Tweets2CV @caitlinrgreen @ticiaverveer Yes, I'd love to hear more about the origins of the name.
@TeaJunkie1 @Tweets2CV @ticiaverveer It's potentially quite fascinating! Generally treated as 'etymology unknown', but Coates in 1988 and >
@TeaJunkie1 @Tweets2CV @ticiaverveer > others more recently argued only obviously workable explanation is that is Proto-Semitic/Phoenician >
@TeaJunkie1 @Tweets2CV @ticiaverveer > & identical in origin to name Ibiza---either same name used in British Isles (cf. Thanet/Y TNT) >
@TeaJunkie1 @Tweets2CV @ticiaverveer > or Punic name = 'lush island' or similar---compare http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html … esp on name Hebrides :)
@TeaJunkie1 @Tweets2CV @ticiaverveer Most recent discussion=Broderick, 'Some island names', Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 7 (2013), 1–28
@caitlinrgreen @Tweets2CV @ticiaverveer I'll track that one down. Thanks. I'm a prehistorian, so would have missed it.
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