Posted on 12/08/2010 12:58:03 PM PST by decimon
Midnight at the oasis ping.
I’ve read that this area could fit the description of the location of Garden of Eden very well.
I suspect the bulk of human prehistory has been lost to the seas.
*But how could such highly developed settlements pop up so quickly, with no precursor populations to be found in the archaeological record? Rose believes that evidence of those preceding populations is missing because it’s under the Gulf.*
Not popped up. Buried under Noah’s Flood.
Kind of in synch with some ancient beliefs about the region in fact.
More modern research has the world ocean rising in distinct stages as various large chunks of ice melt away with the rises taking place over a period of time that should have been sensible to the people "in the way".
Every time the ocean rises or drops the adjacent estuaries get flooded or wash out. That destroys mankind's primary "range" which consists of fertile flat plains filled with plants that feed herbivores. It takes quite some time for the flood plains and fertile plains to get re-established once the ocean level is stabilized. Until then it is inevitable that there will be serious population drops as well as a scattering of the remaining people into newer, but upland, districts.
This report brings the most ancient period of Middle Eastern "Gulf" settlement into contact with the "historic" period which begins with Sumer ~ on an "island" between the Tigris and Euphrates where game animals were abundant, and accessible ~ they could not run away so easily.
The writers suggest these now hidden islands as a sort of Ice Age refuge ~ and no doubt they were. At the same time they weren't the only place people could live ~ the whole region from the Gulf around to Sri Lanka and from there to the furthest parts of Indonesia ~ was above water, highly fertile, and long suspected of having accommodated the first stages of civilized life ~ it even has a name "Sundaland".
Ma-Nu’s beer barge ran aground on Dilmun (that’s a Gulf Island right there in the vicinity BTW).
Sounds like a good suspicion. Next ice age I intend to do some exploring. ;-)
Globull Warming, Climate change, caused by American greed.
Just thinking about it, it seems to me that Great Britain would take up roughly half of the Gulf (perhaps a bit less), in terms of square miles. I hadn't realized it was that young. Although, I do know from serving aboard ship there, it is a pretty shallow body of what, perhaps more shallow than any of the Great Lakes, other than Erie.
Assuming anybody survives the onset of the next period of serious glaciation their archaeologists are definitely going to think we were stupid tp have missed all that good stuff just offshore.
Of course, that should have been "water" not "what" - predictive typing on the smartphone strikes again.
Eden? ??????????
Nah, this is east of Eden.
Only the immature, self centered practitioners of this soft science can be arrogant enough to repeatedly claim that they have the final word on the prehistory of man.
By definition, prehistory is the total lack of certainty, subject to inference by often not-so-smart wannabes.
Subject to constant revision and updates forever.
Not sure there will be much left offshore. Wave action can be a mother.
Pre-history is also that period BEFORE WRITING.
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