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There were some epic floods at the end of the last ice age, pretty recently in human history. I wonder how many flood myths have their origin from that. Plus se
by eloff 4y ago
There were some epic floods at the end of the last ice age, pretty recently in human history. I wonder how many flood myths have their origin from that. Plus sea level rose 120 meters (~400ft). Humans like to live near the coast, imagine how many villages were flooded and abandoned.
Civilization "started" pretty soon right after the last ice age - my theory is that's when it actually restarted after earlier attempts at civilization were washed away.
- jl6 4y agoWashed away… or waiting underwater a few hundred meters off the modern coastline. Paleolithic fishing villages preserved just out of easy reach.
- eloff 4y agoThere must be a wealth of fascinating sites, buried under sediment in 120 meters of water.
- saalweachter 4y agoSo in the cosmology of the Wheel of Time, people always find themselves in the Third Age. This is because there's always one Age before the current one, the Second Age, the Age of Legends, that is remembered as distorted legends of the truth of what happened. And then there's the Age before the Age of Legends, the First Age, which is the remnants of the legends the people in the Second Age told about what happened before them, which have now fade to myth that is almost unrecognizable from anything that happened in truth. Atlantis and the Garden of Eden would be examples of the latter -- stories that people in our distant past told about their distant past.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoNot sure if you're familiar with the journalist Graham Hancock, who has been writing about this since the mid 90s, with similar conjecture. It's interesting. He's often maligned by various scientists, but repeatedly says he's just a journalist chasing pieces of a puzzle about what was forgotten back then with all the ice age transition climate changes.