[zeestephen]

Thanks for your excellent links.

I read them all.

I was not familiar with Willard Bascom.

I had completely forgotten about the Black Sea megaflood, which explains the transition from fresh water to salt water.

I've lived in Portland and Seattle for a long time and was not aware of our own glacial megafloods until I moved here.

There is also a strong academic consensus in this area that most early settlements in the northwest were on the coast and disappeared under the post-glacial Pacific Ocean.

And thanks for the amphora photo. I love that utensil. It was the standardized canned goods/bottle/shipping container of the Mediterranean for 4000 years!

[SunkenCiv]

:’) My pleasure.