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- From: alanf@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Alan M Feuerbacher)
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- Subject: Re: Glub Glub... Any Floods in Human History?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:29:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.013809.7159@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
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- | And the worst part of these catastrophic floods:
- |....
- | The first writing known is from the neighborhood of the
- |Eastern Mediterranean, which is rather far from any of the Pleistocene
- |continental glaciers. The Northern European glacier is a borderline
- |case at best, while the North American glacier is out of the question
- |as regards contacts. I've never heard of any evidence of big floods
- |caused by bursting ice dams in Europe, like those in North America and
- |the Altai Mountains, but I wouldn't complain about being wrong ;-)
- |
- | Furthermore, the writing occurs too late by 5 millennia (~3000
- |BCE in Egypt and Mesopotamia) and the knowledge of geography and
- |history it shows is strictly local. There is some older writing-like
- |markings in the Balkan Neolithic, but that has not been deciphered (if
- |it is writing) [see Gimbutas, _The Civilization of the Goddess_, for
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- See: _Ice Age Earth - Late Quaternary Geology and Climate_,
- Alastair G. Dawson, Routledge, London, 1992
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- This book I quoted in an earlier post describes catastrophic flooding
- due to glacial outbursts in Scandinavia (the Baltic Ice Lake), the
- Caspian Sea region, and parts of Siberia, as well as North America.
- This is apparently an active field of research. Some people have
- proposed that the Caspian Sea region flooding, rather than
- Mesopotamian flooding, gave rise to the earliest Flood legends.
- The dating of the last floods is just late enough to be tantalizing.
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- Alan Feuerbacher
- alanf@atlas.pen.tek.com
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