--- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:
> The current issue of the American Journal of Archaeology has some
> interesting data pretty much confirming what's been said before.
This
> links to the abstract:
>
> http://www.ajaonline.org/prerelease/ballard_robert_d_fre.html
>
> It says, among other things: "[...] a probable site reflecting
human
> habitation prior to the proposed flooding event were located at
depths
> around 100 m."
Nah, that's old news.
Strabo, Geography 1.3.4
"
...
Then Eratosthenes praises the opinion of Strato, who goes still
further into the question of causes, because Strato says he believes
the Euxine Sea formerly did not have its outlet at Byzantium, but the
rivers which empty into the Euxine forced and opened a passage, and
then the waters was discharged into the Propontis and the Hellespont.
The same thing, Strabo says, happened in the Mediterranean asin also
for in this case the passage at the pillars was broken through when
the sea had been filled by the rivers, and at the time of the outrush
of the water the places that had hitherto been covered with shoal-
waters were left dry.
...
"
Strato obvously believes in a breakthrough in the other direction
than that of current thinking. He is trying to explain the presence
of sea-shells above sea level around the Mediterranean.
Torsten