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Re: Pitman still arguing for a 6th millenniumBCE Black Sea Flood

Subject: Re: Pitman still arguing for a 6th millenniumBCE Black Sea Flood
From: prd
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:34:59 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
In sci.archaeology message 
news:1151130702.483624.299120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by
"Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@xxxxxxxxx>  . . . : 

> 
> prd wrote:
> <snip>
>> The gain of even 50 or 100 feet of water
>> in great rapidity
>> in the Black Sea
>> might
>> suffice to cause a wide scale and permanent displacement.
>> The permanent aspect is important because
>> invaders often temporarily displaced peoples only to wait for
>> them to let down their gaurd, attack and purge the displacers,
>> or simply wait until resources declined and the displacers left
>> on their own. Such a displacement may have forced migrations of
>> developed cultures of the time from the black sea and
>> triggering a pattern of migration that lead to the spread of
>> indo-european languages. 
> <snip>
> 
>   Yes, Philip, something like such a rapid rise in the level of
>   the 
> Black Sea "might" have done so, except that if it ever did
> happen, it must have happened long, long before the spread of
> Indo-European languages. But there's no real evidence of
> anything of such "great rapidity" ever happening, so let's just
> drop the idea, shall we? 

First off, if it relates to the spread of culture within europe and 
the middle east it relates to archaeology. 

Second off, even if it is speculative, it is no more speculative than
the 90% of this group devoted to viking nonsense. 

Third off, I have an interest in the archaeology of food, and between 
8000 and 4000 years ago this holoregion saw one of the fastest 
evolutions of one of the worlds predominant grains. I have some 
genetic evidence suggesting that peoples to one part of europe 
appeared to have migrated from the bosporous regions about that time, 
moreover it appears that the migration appears to have had important 
cultural consequences in the interior of europe itself. 

>   It's boring, already. 

Then killfile the thread or from boredom, drop ....... 

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