[RedMonqey]

So the lake was lower before it rose then back down again?

I blame all those horse drawn chariots!

[Tell It Right]

In all seriousness, the Greek Dark Age cooling period (roughly 1100-300 BC) lowered sea levels some, before the Roman Warm Period (300 BC - AD 300) rose sea levels some, but not quite back up to where they had been at the end of the Minoan Warm Period.

Then the Dark Age cooling period (AD 300 - 900) lowered the sea levels more (cooler than the Greek Dark Age) only for sea levels to rise back up some with the Medieval Warm Period (AD 900-1300), but again not as high as the Roman Warm Period.

Then the Little Ice Age (AD 1300-1800's) lowered the sea levels a lot more until the Modern Warm Period rose the sea levels back up some (probably not as much as was in the Medieval Warm Period, but we're not sure).

You can see it graphically here. The numbers at the bottom are in thousands of years ago. So the hump above the 2 is 2,000 years ago (Roman Warm Period), etc.