[blam]

Newsday must be excerpted. Click on the site for the complete article. (I don't know what has happened to our auto link)

[blam]

"(I don't know what has happened to our auto link)"

Never mind, it worked.

GGG Ping.

[GSlob]

"...as Rome ordered more taxes to be collected from its eastern province. The edict spawned a boom in local production and trading among communities across the Mediterranean and north to the Crimea..."
Have they never heard of Laffer curve? Those damned ignorant liberals...

[SunkenCiv]

Still, scientists are puzzled why a ruin, then located on a 40-foot rise, and at the mouth of a river, would be anything but an ancient, well-situated home. They don't understand how the debris floated in and settled around the site, especially considering there's no other similar pile of underwater matter for miles around. It could be that the debris floated up as the waters rose, and that it wasn't a continuous rise, or at least not entirely continuous. It's also possible that they've rejected the RC dates because they don't conform to expectation, i.e., that the flood event took place more recently than R&P originally determined. For that matter, it's possible that the long submergence of the wood has had an impact on the carbon ratios.

I'm tempted to extract the other story within the story -- that of the Byzantine vessel. Here's something from NG from the time of that discovery:

Ancient Wooden Ship Emerges Intact From Geographic's Black Sea Expedition
by Mary Jeanne Jacobsen and Barbara Moffet
Ballard's website

The discovery in September of the well-preserved ship confirms scientists' belief that the oxygen-deprived waters of the Black Sea below 656 feet (200 meters) provide an ideal environment for preserving ancient wooden vessels, making that sea a treasure-house for archaeologists. Shipwrecks in most other bodies of water usually are robbed of their wooden parts quickly by wood-boring organisms.

Ballard's mentor, Willard Bascom, lived not quite long enough to learn of this discovery.

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[TYVets]

"Newsday must be excerpted"

Newsday wants to be accurate?

That policy must have taking effect 10 minutes ago. (/ very very sarcastic ?

[sharktrager]

Scientists were especially interested in this site, dubbed "Shipwreck D," because the Black Sea's unique, oxygen-less water leaves everything on the bottom mostly intact. Shipwreck D is so well-preserved that cord tied in a V-shape at the top of the trading vessel's wooden mast is still clearly visible.

Yes, I would agree. Water (H2 O) with no oxygen, would be quite unique.

[SunkenCiv]

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