This
is good. It gives us a time line for the end of the Ice Age melt
itself. What this does infer is that the Ice melted from around
12900 BP to 7000 BP or over a span of 6000 years. This also means
that all shore lines stabilized around 5000 BC and any earlier
coastal settlement was inundated sooner or later.
The
break though into the Black Sea was a last phase of the melt. This
appears to have been a catastrophic event although the appropriate
waterfall needs to be located if it has not.
The
rest of the sea rise was generally rather slow. This allowed the
coasts to be eroded out of existence to leave no trace. However we
know of at least one to two surges which may well have been strong
enough to flood large areas without destroying them. There are also
comparable subsidence events that are more fruitful. Port royal is
a good example.
We
already knew that this was true. What we now have is the actual
coastline still intact in the Black Sea and plausibly we will locate
the remains of actual towns and ports here also, all of which can be
assigned safely to 7000 years ago.
It is
always satisfying to have conjectures fleshed out with a mountain of
evidence.
Noah's biblical
flood actually happened, suggests new evidence
Washington, December
11 (ANI): An acclaimed underwater archaeologist believes that he has
found evidence that the Great Biblical Flood of Noah's time may have
actually happened after all.
Robert Ballard, one of
the world's best-known underwater archaeologists, told ABC News that
his team is probing the depths of the Black Sea off the coast of
Turkey in search of traces of an ancient civilization hidden
underwater since the time of Noah.
Ballard said some
12,000 years ago, much of the world was covered in ice.
"Where I live in
Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the
North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But
then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our
living history," he explained it to ABC News.
The water from the
melting glaciers began to rush toward the world's oceans, Ballard
said, causing floods all around the world.
"The questions
is, was there a mother of all floods," Ballard said.
According to a
controversial theory proposed by two Columbia University scientists,
there really was one in the Black Sea region.
They believe that the
now-salty Black Sea was once an isolated freshwater lake surrounded
by farmland, until it was flooded by an enormous wall of water from
the rising Mediterranean Sea. The force of the water was two hundred
times that of Niagara Falls, sweeping away everything in its path.
Fascinated by the
idea, Ballard and his team decided to investigate.
"We went in there
to look for the flood. Not just a slow moving, advancing rise of sea
level, but a really big flood that then stayed... The land that went
under stayed under," he said.
Four hundred feet
below the surface, they unearthed an ancient shoreline, proof to
Ballard that a catastrophic event did happen in the Black Sea.
By carbon dating
shells found along the shoreline, Ballard said he believes they have
established a timeline for that catastrophic event, which he
estimates happened around 5,000 BC. Some experts believe this
was around the time when Noah's flood could have occurred.
"It probably was
a bad day. At some magic moment, it broke through and flooded this
place violently, and a lot of real estate, 150,000 square kilometers
of land, went under," Ballard said.
Ballard does not think
he will ever find Noah's Ark, but he does think he may find evidence
of a people whose entire world was washed away about 7,000 years ago.
He and his team said
they plan to return to Turkey next summer. (ANI)
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