Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen@...
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 12:53 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes
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[snip]

> > Besides I read somewhere that the Euxine flooding was not local,

but

> caused by the latest rise in sea level. This meand Sundaland and

Euxine

> occurred simultanéously (now I can't find it, of course).
>
> No they didn't. The Black Sea flood was a long-delayed consequence

of the

> postglacial sea-level rise. The Bosphorus remained blocked long

enough for

> the level of the Euxine to drop by some 200 m and for a freshwater

lake half

> the size of the present sea to form in that part of the Tethys

basin. The

> waters of the Mediterranean cut through the barrier about 5500 BC

(give or

> take a few decades), that is at least two and a half millennia

after the

> submergence of the Sunda Shelf, which was an instant result of the

Holocene

> warming.
>

Did too (this is getting ridiculous). This is my fault, I must learn
to distinguish between BP, BPE, and BC.
I checked "Eden in the East". Citing reliable sources (I think), the
last great rise in the level of the oceans was 8000 BP, 6000 BC.
So was the flooding of the Black Sea.

> Piotr

Torsten