Technically speaking, BP = before 1950 (by
convention).
This IS getting ridiculous.
Sundaland was submerged in two phases. The
first, coincident with the meltwater pulse (called "Ia") of ca. 15000-13500
BP, caused a rapid retreat of the coastline; after the second pulse ("Ib"),
which began ca. 11500 BP and culminated ca. 10000 BP (that is, about 8000 BC),
the inundation of the Sunda Shelf was complete. There have been more recent
see-level rises, on a much smaller scale, but they can't have led to the
flooding of something that had already been flooded.
The sea-level rise of ca. 7500 BP (= 5550
BC with a few decades' margin of error) caused the Mediterranean to break the
fragile barrier that had prevented the sea to spill over into the
Euxine basin since the time of the high rises that marked the beginning of
the Holocene. The Euxine system was a hydrographic bomb with a fuse that took
about 2500 years to burn -- that's the time gap between the two
"floods".
Piotr
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Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes
...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.