Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@..., "Rex H. McTyeire" <rexbo@...> wrote:

> I have to favor Piotr on these points, which have been discussed

here in

> detail in the past with Mark Odegard also contributing. I don't

think you

> will find any simultaneity of the discussed events. 5500 BC is as

solid a

> date as we can expect for the period relative to the Black Sea

rise, and

> even if you could get as reliable a date for Sundaland..it would be

off. (2

> and a half, to at least one half millennium using your dates.)

Piotr is

> correct that the proposed mechanics of the Black Sea fill include a
> relatively sudden breach of a significant geobarrier, following

the gradual

> (centuries?) sea level increases in the Med/Aegean.
>
> See Ryan and Pittman, Columbia University - 1997. Also see: Cornell
> University Dendrochronology Project.
> Mediterranean into the Black Sea ca. 5500 BCE.
> and another significant subsidence (Dendrochronology attested)

after 2715

> +/- 10 years

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/dendro/98news/98adplet.html

> (an old link, but will get you to index)
>
> See also: Toby Harnden, Robert Ballard re the mollusc evidence,

radiacarbon

> dating salt water molluscs, also supporting 5,500 BCE as the Black

Sea fill

> date.
>
> Cu Stima;
> Rex H. McTyeire
> Bucharest, Romania
> <rexbo@...>

I never questioned the dating of the Black Sea event.
Oppenheimer: "Eden in the East" quotes Fletcher & Sherman: "Submerged
Shorelines on O'ahu, Hawaii: Archive of Episodic Transgression During
the Deglaciation?" in Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue no.
17, 1995, pp 141-52 : "possibly the single largest flood of the [past
two million years]" of an event 8000 years ago.

Torsten