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It is odd that we don't look underwater for civilizations from before the end of the last ice age. We observe sea levels rising now from the melting of the ice
by ganzuul 8y ago
It is odd that we don't look underwater for civilizations from before the end of the last ice age. We observe sea levels rising now from the melting of the ice caps, so why would it not have happened then too?
- vidanay 8y agoUnderwater archaeology is a significant subject of study. http://www.pnas.org/content/111/19/6911 http://www.pnas.org/content/111/19/6911
- greglindahl 8y agoAnd here's an article about underwater archaeology in the popular press: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/26/the-first-brexit-submerged-landscapes-of-the-north-sea-and-channel https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/26/the-first-br... ... which makes it clear that archaeologists are being pretty systematic about looking for settlements that were on the shore and are now drowned.
- barkingtoad 8y agoBecause the end of the last ice age was only 12,000 years ago; and in that time frame, if that warming was caused by a prehistoric civilization, there would be a ton of evidence for that civilization's existence.
- sml156 8y agoNot if they built their towns and cities on top of active volcano's for a plentiful source of hot water.