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Drowned Indian city could be world's oldest
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| 18 January 02
| Emma Young
Posted on 01/18/2002 9:59:20 AM PST by Oxylus
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Note: this topic is from January 18, 2002. Thanks Oxylus.
Blast from the Past. The acoustic imaging has identified a nine-kilometre-long stretch of what was once a river but is now 40 metres beneath the sea... "The carbon dating of 7500 BC obtained for the wooden piece recovered from the site changes the earlier held view that the first cities appeared in the Sumer Valley [in Mesopotamia] around 3000 BC," said B Sasisekaran of India's National Science Academy. Tom Higham of Oxford University's Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit says submerged wood is often well-preserved and should be relatively straightforward to carbon date. "I don't see how you could get it grossly wrong," he says. "In the past, it has been said that you shouldn't pin all your interpretations on a date from one sample. But that's not so true these days. And dating a sample that's between 5000 and 10,000 years old is pretty easy." ...Sharad Rajaguru, a former head of archaeology at the Deccan College in Pune, said: "These collections represent an exciting breakthrough in offshore archaeology. Further investigation of the area is important as this might throw light on the development of human civilisation, besides having a bearing on Indian history." Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.
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SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: koba
India’s population growth has dropped off. It is expected to peak at 1.5 billion in 2050 and then taper downwards. The average fertility per woman (number of kids per woman) has dropped from 6. something in 1991 to 3. something in 2001 and will drop further as of th census this year (2010).
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(Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
To: koba
India’s population growth has dropped off. It is expected to peak at 1.5 billion in 2050 and then taper downwards. The average fertility per woman (number of kids per woman) has dropped from 6. something in 1991 to 3. something in 2001 and will drop further as of th census this year (2010).
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Cronos
(Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
To: SunkenCiv
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Cronos
(Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
To: Cronos
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SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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