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Originally posted by Heliocentric
Did the coastline of the Konkan, from Shrivardhan in Raigad to Vengurla in Sindhudurg, host an advanced human civilization 8,000 years ago? Did that population have well-developed engineering skills? The latest discovery in the field of archaeology, below the sea waters of Konkan coast, seems to indicate so.
Originally posted by CLPrime
I'm just wondering... how well-developed does an entire civilization need to be, really, to build a wall?
Originally posted by CLPrime
Other than that, this is a pretty cool find. I love these kinds of archaeological finds, that challenge accepted history.
Originally posted by daynight42
reply to post by Heliocentric
So there's a wall. BFD.
Bottom line: a wall is found, and it's very old.
I guess that would be too boring to read.
Originally posted by Heliocentric
Originally posted by CLPrime
Other than that, this is a pretty cool find. I love these kinds of archaeological finds, that challenge accepted history.
I doesn't really challenge history, because history is not a dogma set in stone. It evolves as we discover more about our past, but it must be prudent before accepting something as proven beyond doubt.
Originally posted by daynight42
reply to post by Heliocentric
So there's a wall. BFD. China has a wall that isn't underwater,
does that mean they were / are any more of advanced civilization than those countries without walls? A two year told can build a wall with legos.
Who writes this stuff? A wall is found then BAM, it's warped into something like "Ooo advanced civilization!"
Bottom line: a wall is found, and it's very old. I guess that would be too boring to read.
Originally posted by Heliocentric
Personally, I believe the walls are levees. Water levels rose and they tried to protect their land, in vain. A whole new chapter is now opening up in (underwater) archaeology. Exciting!
Originally posted by CLPrime
I didn't say it challenges history. I said it challenges accepted history. As in, what we find in our history books. You may not think history is a dogma set in stone (and, if you read the rest of what I wrote, you'll know that I agree with you), but a lot of people do, and that's the problem - too many people think that what they "know" is how things have to be, when, in fact, reality is less than sympathetic to our expectations. People must be more open to finds like this, if they're truly interested history.
en.wikipedia.org...
Geologists have found evidence that a major outbreak of Lake Agassiz about 13,000 BP drained north through the Mackenzie River into the Arctic Ocean A return of the ice for some time offered a reprieve, but after retreating north of the Canada – United States border about 9,900 years ago, Lake Agassiz refilled. The last major shift in drainage occurred about 8,400 years BP. The melting of remaining Hudson Bay ice caused lake Agassiz to drain nearly completely. This final drainage of Lake Agassiz contributed an estimated 1 to 3 meters to total post-glacial global sea level rise. Much of the final drainage may have occurred in a very short time, in one or two events, perhaps taking as little as a year.
At its peak, the floodplain now below the Gulf would have been about the size of Great Britain, and then shrank as water began to flood the area. Then, about 8,000 years ago, the land would have been swallowed up by the Indian Ocean
Watery refuge
The Gulf Oasis would have been a shallow inland basin exposed from about 75,000 years ago until 8,000 years ago, forming the southern tip of the Fertile Crescent, according to historical sea-level records.
"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the founding of such remarkably well developed communities along the shoreline corresponds with the flooding of the Persian Gulf basin around 8,000 years ago," Rose said. "These new colonists may have come from the heart of the Gulf, displaced by rising water levels that plunged the once fertile landscape beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean."