Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa
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If I was a billionaire, I'd look into funding tech for excavating coastlines during the ice age(s), That's where any 10k old civilizations must have been.
We already know relatively little about Neolithic Europe despite there being major cities there that rivaled or eclipsed those in Mesopotamia in population. Yet we hardly know anything about them in comparison because they used perishable materials for almost everything (and it’s not only because of writing). Finding anything useful underwater makes that many times harder.
What are you referring to? I could certainly imagine such a thing but I can't say I've ever heard of someone finding evidence of a city that matches this description.
e.g. Maidanetske site could have had 20-40k inhabitants. Uruk possibly only reached that population centuries later.
But of course accurate estimates of this and other similar sites are very tricky.
Submerged places... imagine how complex and slow archaeologic excavations look on the ground. Now move it 50m underwater in endless mud. Good luck looking for literal needle in the muddy haystack of 40,000km2. To find what... some fossilized wood or few arrow heads? That culture was very similar to ones on neighboring lands, no atlantis there.
One day, robots can scan and dig through there but there are so many better ways to spending money, any money, that it makes perfect sense nobody is doing it.
The geology of the North Sea also indicates “sand” more than “rocks”.
Like Stonehenge? How can we possibly know what's there without looking thoroughly?
There is a 4000-5000 year gap between Doggerland sinking and Stonehenge i.e. similar to that of Stonehenge being built and our days so it's hardly relevant.
>There is a 4000-5000 year gap between Doggerland sinking and Stonehenge i.e. similar to that of Stonehenge being built and our days so it's hardly relevant
Göbeklitepe was built 5000 years before Stonehenge so I think it is very relevant. It is absurd to suggest that we know for certain what is there without even looking.
It's not if we base it on evidence that we have. It's silly to assume otherwise until any evidence at all is discovered. Why would Doggerland be fundamentally different to the surrounding areas which are at a higher altitude?
> Göbeklitepe
If there were major stone structures at the bottom of the sea we would have very likely found them already.
Also.. I'm not even trying to imply that there weren't any complex societies in Doggerland (of course it's extremely likely that there weren't) but they would have likely primarily used wood to construct structures due to obvious reasons and any remains would have been very unlikely to survive.
IMHO associating "monumental" architecture or remains with complex societies and "civilization" is flawed. Just consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidanetske
https://www.cascadepbs.org/2011/05/lost-civilization-along-w...
This sea level hinge idea points towards an area to look that didn't get pushed underwater. As far as I have read people are looking and finding signs of humans. The north end of Vancouver island and the Brooks peninsula also may have stayed glacier free during the ice age.
I'm glad I'm not an archaeologist. They are faced with very little evidence, and of course try to extend it as far as possible. And then a new discovery throws that under the bus.
1. they built a boat and rowed across
2. they banished Thag who had dallied with the King Oog's lady, who then wandered following the shore and a year later was in Spain. Thag was popular with the ladies, and had many descendants
3. through human brownian motion over a century, some wound up in Spain
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext... (press "focus" to swap language)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B...
It's kind of completely unambiguous though, given all the details:
> from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean,
> the ocean there was at that time navigable;
> in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,'
The location is clearly out in the unnavigable Atlantic, and the [whatever] of Heracles form a mouth.
Although there probably was some sort of maritime link from Greece to beyond Gibraltar, the link to the Atlantis myth seems rather tenuous and moreover, isn't needed to explain where Platon got the idea for this ancient thalassocracy since he of course lived in Athens when they were doing similar stuff with the Delian League.
The title is misleading.
On articles like this, I strongly recommend just ignoring the title. It's enough to make anyone with a mild background in the subject frustrated. The research itself remains incredibly interesting.
> Hunter-gatherers from Europe and North Africa could have traversed
“May” and “could have” aren’t meaningful, and the quotes ends with additional ambiguity.
- Evidence X, Y, Z points to a European origin for these discoveries.
- How could Europeans have got to North Africa so long ago?
- They could have done it by island hopping.