[decimon]

Midnight at the oasis ping.

[DManA]

I’ve read that this area could fit the description of the location of Garden of Eden very well.

[JoeProBono]

[cripplecreek]

I suspect the bulk of human prehistory has been lost to the seas.

[PATRIOT1876]

*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.

[OldDeckHand]

"At its peak, the exposed basin would have been about the size of Great Britain, Rose says. "

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.

[dangerdoc]

Eden? ??????????

[xzins]

post-Eden civilization?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Another underwater Eden alert...a few thousand years to get dissolved, eroded, washed away, silted up, eaten up by microorganisms, good luck with any actual discoveries.

But as always, it’s great copy!

[colorado tanker]

Fascinating stuff.

Definitely fits in with blam and Oppenheimer's thesis about Sundaland.

[The Comedian]

Last-time-swallowed-by-water-and-next-time-it's-gonna-be-fire ping.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.