Re: dry Meditteranean

From: Damien R. Sullivan (dasulliv_at_cs.indiana.edu)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:38:09 +0000 (UTC)

"Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Also, Ballard did not find Noah's House, and he has recently
>admitted that he didn't find any evidence of human occupation
>of the Black Sea continental shelf, let alone any support for

Is there any evidence of people living on what are now continental shelves
elsewhere? I read of a theory that the worldwide distribution of flood
stories might come from hunter-gatherers happily living on dry shelf in the
last Ice Age -- coastal areas are often highly productive and populated, after
all, and sea levels would have been lower. Then the glaciers melt, the seas
rise, and half the world's population is forced back into the now
over-populated hinterland, plus the climate's changed and everyone's
hunting-gathering skills are no longer entirely appropriate, and hey presto
people in the Old World turn their casual gardening skills into full
agriculture. I think the theory made specific reference to Persian Gulf
continental shelf, and claims that the four rivers of Eden in the Bible would
intersect off-shore.

The flood wouldn't be catastrophic -- "Walk, walk slowly for the hills!" but
culturally traumatic.

Secondhand source: The time before history : 5 million years of human impact,
Colin Tudge.

It all sounded nice; I haven't known what more to make of it.

-xx- Damien X-)

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