Wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea 'may be Europe’s oldest megastructure'
theguardian.com
theguardian.com
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2312008121
It contains a lot of diagrams of the wall (fig. 2 and 3), as well as an extensive discussion about whether it could have been produced by natural phenomena (heading "Natural Processes as Origin of the Blinkerwall"). The concluding paragraph of that section:
> Taken together, the aspects discussed above do not ultimately rule out a natural process as the genetic origin of the Blinkerwall. However, for each of the different processes, several unresolved questions remain. We consider a shoreline influenced by drifting ice as least unlikely, whereas eskers, moraines, and tsunami deposits appear highly implausible. Finally, there is one observation that cannot be explained by natural processes at all, and which pointed us toward a possible anthropogenic origin of the structure. This is the preferential location of the largest and heaviest stones at knickpoints along the 971-m-long Blinkerwall.
Yup temperatures and sea levels have been rising for a long time. It’s amazing what geography looks like when you lower sea level.
One immediate benefit is that there would've been fewer thieves looting the artifacts.
Ideally, something is conserved under dry and oxygenfree conditions. But even in a swamp, without oxygen - amazing things have been found.
The question is probably, was everything covered before the salt water came, or afterwards. And stable. And while in the water with currents that can change, it is possible that everything gets washed free and then covered again over time. Also not good.
(Also exicted about the topic, I am strongly thinking about buying a professional metal detector. Close to where I live, there was one 3000 year old burial site found, I strongly suspect, there are more. And this site, is also not that far from me and 20 m is something you can dive (but I need to train that again))
As a result, a disproportionate amount of our knowledge of Roman bureaucracy comes from Egypt, simply because papyrus preserves so well (even accidentally) in so much of the area. It makes research somewhat awkward, because we know Egypt received special treatment in some ways but it's so often a sample-size of one that we don't know if lots of things are an Egypt thing or a Roman-province thing.
>The Arabian Gulf has one of the longest and richest seafaring traditions anywhere in the world. Prior to 8,000 years ago sea levels were considerably lower and the land to the north of the Emirates was an open and potentially fertile landscape. This landscape is an untapped resource, offering the prospect of not only ancient wrecks, but discoveries from the distant prehistoric submerged landscape of Abu Dhabi.
>This talk delves into the intricacies surrounding the Arabian Gulf as it relates its' position as an archaeological treasure.
Presented by Dr. Richard Cuttler
https://greekreporter.com/2024/01/22/pavlopetri-greece-ancie...
Or modern victims of dam building,
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/spanish-sunken-vil...
It is only the teaser image and doesn't show up on their actual article. [1]
[0] https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/ostsee...
[1] https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/rostoc...
Evidence of hunter-gatherer societies at the bottom of the great lakes:
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2014/05/06/anc...
Why "blinker"? Is that German slang for an echo sounder or something?
What would have been neat would have been to see the extent of the ice sheet on top of this.
There was time and space enough there for a whole civilization as sophisticated as ancient Egypt to rise and fall and rise again, and finally be submerged. People who lived there, and had to move uphill as the sea claimed their great-grandparents' homes, might retain no hint of their ancestors' achievements.
Something similar could have happened in the middle of the Sahara, and now be under sand dunes, instead. With no trading partners, there would be no expectation of artifacts remaining to be found elsewhere. We might never find any hint of such a civilization, if they existed. ("Atlantis", you may say, but that is just a tale.)
The Amazon rain forest once held tens of millions of people living in major cities, maintaining the whole Amazon basin as an orchard they had domesticated for at least 10,000 years. We had no hint of any of it until barely 50 years ago. What is left of their specialized knowledge, beyond subtle ayahuasca, manioc, and cacao processing? (Sweet potato, anyway, reached the Pacific Islands.) Their civilization was apparently wiped out by the assortment of diseases brought by Europeans, and vanished beneath the unchecked forest in only a century.
We should not believe in anything without evidence, but it would be foolish not to continue seeking such evidence everywhere it might be.
I will add that we should not disbelieve without evidence, either. Only after we have explored everywhere will we have evidence against.
"Why Some Think Bimini Road Is A Lost Highway To Atlantis"
When the choices are sensationalist Atlantean headlines or a Wikipedia "debunk" article, I prefer to opt out of drinking cola entirely. There are more stimulating beverages elsewhere.
Where else are you going to find a wall in the sea, floating?
On the beach, because it washed ashore.
On a tiny uninhabited island "in the sea".
On the salt flats, because the whole ocean dried up (only applicable for Dead Sea or Aral Sea).