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That doesn't account for the fact that nearly every major culture and region on earth has a flood myth.
by colordrops 5y ago
That doesn't account for the fact that nearly every major culture and region on earth has a flood myth.
- dboreham 5y agoCurious if we know for sure that every culture doesn't descend in part from inhabitants of the fertile crescent.
- colordrops 5y agoHumans first arrived in east Asia 2.1 million years ago, and modern humans arrived there at least 80,000 years ago. The fertile crescent civilization formed about 11,000 years ago, and some flood accounts, as well as some geological evidence, date the floods at about 12,000 years ago.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup#/media/File:Human_migrations_and_mitochondrial_haplogroups.PNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup#/media/File:Human_m... The modern humans that went to Asia largely stuck to the cost, and started on that route some millennia earlier than the modern humans that settled the Levant. Pre modern humans took that route far earlier, and there's growing evidence our ancestor and cousin species preceded them on it.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoThe reason for that is banal: the vast majority of humans chose to live near a water source, if not the coast. That's still true today, but was overwhelmingly true in prehistoric times.