Floods

Piotr wrote:

I've heard it rumoured recently that a Kazakh-Polish archaeological
expedition has discovered strong evidence for another Great Flood
(supplementing the Black Sea event) in the mid 6th millennium BC in what is
now Kazakhstan and southern Russia -- apparently caused by the catastrophic
emptying of a vast post-glacial lake in western Siberia into the Aral and
Caspian seas. I'll believe it if I see the report published in Nature and
corroborated by further research, but one has to get accustomed to
archaeological and geological surprises which may render a lot of
speculation invalid overnight.
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Okay, suppose such a catastrophic flood did happen. What would this be
proving?
I've come across a number of not very well matching facts on the Deluge
issue. I'm not trying to prove anything - just meditating:
It's surprizing enough that there's apparently no real evidence for THE
Great Flood in Mesopotamia. The only evidence there is indicates that
Euphrates and Tigris changed their beds and flowed for a time over parts of
Ur and Kish that had previously been inhabited.
On the other hand, not only in Mesopotamian texts we find reports of the
event, but also in stories and legends of China, Siberia, Kamchatka, the
Americas, some parts of Africa.
The Universal Deluge theory doesn't seem to be very widely accepted as
covering the whole world with water would require eight times more water as
there is on the Earth at present.
If a report on an enormous pre-historical flood in Kazakhstan occured, one
might at the first glance be tempted to believe that the craddle of the
mankind has been found (but the flood would then have to be dated in a much
earlier period).
On the other hand, the Weld Prism (2000 bc)in Sumerian gives an outline of
the world history with the names of ten kings who ruled before the flood. No
go. Who would remember ten kings from about 4000 years ago?
I'm only trying to figure out what such a discovery as Piotr mentions would
mean for the IE studies - but have no idea. I hope someone can enlighten me
a bit.

Lep pozdrav,
Simona
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