[blam]

Another coastal city covered by the ice melt at the end of the Ice Age?

[WindMinstrel]

Interesting stuff. Forgive my ignorance, but is ananova a trustworthy news source? If so, this article is rather groovy (as the kids say)

[Doc Savage]

Head of Mummy unearthed at burial site.

[Fifth Business]

a bathroom or a temple

Insert your joke here.

[blam]

For those of you who may have missed this one: Update On Mysterious Deep Water Sonar Images Off Western Cuba

[Aurelius]

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[Billthedrill]

Welllll....it's kind of a stretch, but I wish them luck. Actually, both Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations go back before 2500 BC, and the Indus Valley civilization may be even older, but this is a newspaper and not a textbook. Part of the problem is the definition of what constitutes a "civilization" - a collection of mud huts around a temple may or may not qualify depending on where you set the bar. I'll be following this story in the hopes they unearth more.

[Ada Coddington]

Wow! This is a more plausible than the one off Cuba. Seen any pictures yet?

[Jay W]

Another coastal city covered by the ice melt at the end of the Ice Age?

Probably so. Any cities or villages along ancient coastlines would have been inundated by the rising seas.

Remember, sea levels were several hundred feet lower during the last Ice Age.

Most people then, like now, lived near the sea, especially near river deltas and sites where rivers and streams emptied into the seas.

[lepton]

"The findings buried 40 metres below the sea reveal some sort of human civilisation, a courtyard, staircase, a bathroom or a temple."

Ummmm. This is definitive...

[Ditter]

Thanks. I'll bet you are an arrowhead hunter & rock collector.

[white rose]

Great! I've always strongly believed "civilization" is much older than most of the conventional wisdom claims, so anything that helps push the clock back is always interesting news.

[dixie sass]

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[blam]

A Forgotten Site Yields Ancient Stone Tools in India

By Michael A. Stowe

An archaeological site discovered nearly 140 years ago in southern India is now yielding a remarkable collection of early Stone Age tools found in association with ancient animal footprints.

The Attirampakkam site, discovered in Tamil Nadu state by British geologist Robert Bruce Foote in 1863, was littered with stone tools. It had been sporadically excavated over the years, but little was ever published about it. Then archaeologist Shanti Pappu of the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education made a startling discovery there in 1991. Beneath the layers of dirt and clay, his team found remnants of Acheulean tools — an Old World stone-tool technology that began about 1 million years ago and lasted for nearly 900,000 years.

The stone-tool assemblage, the first Paleolithic tools ever found in clay deposits anywhere in India, includes hand axes, cleavers, picks, awls, scrapers, knives and stone flakes that were used as tools, all crafted from local quartzite.

Pappu said 17 roughly oval, animal-like footprints were found this past year in the clay layer that held the tools. The footprints and three fossilized teeth also found in the clay may help scientists sort out India’s ancient environment.

“This season’s excavations were important owing to the discovery of animal footprints in association with Acheulean artifacts,” says Pappu. “These factors render the site on par with other Achulean sites in East Africa and indicate its immense potential for long-term study.”

[goody2shooz]

Nice post. This I remember reading somewhere...but I'm sure I was above sea level at the time.

[CobaltBlue]

Interesting photos of artifacts from the Bay of Cambay site here:
http://www.grahamhancock.com/underworld/cambay3.php?p=1

First artifact reminds me of warp weights, used to hold down warp threads during weaving.

Earliest known use of warp weights, to my knowledge, was at Catal Huyuk, 7000 BCE.

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsc00b.htm

Or maybe a weight for a fishing net?

[CobaltBlue]

Long article on the Harappan civilization in the Gulf of Cambay/Combay region:
http://www.harappa.com/lothal/text.html

[Centurion2000]

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[pabianice]

They found Atlantis???

[pabianice]

My bet's on the Gao'uld.

[Free Vulcan]

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