---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <seerdope@...> wrote :
Nice article.
20,000 years ago at the peak of the last ice age, sea levels were 120 meters
lower than today.
"Sea level was 400 feet lower then because huge ice caps two miles deep
covered most of Europe and North America. But as the ice caps began to melt all
the water stored in them returned to the oceans and sea-level rose, submerging
many parts of the world where humans had previously lived. Thus Britain was
joined to Europe during the Ice Age (there was no English Channel or North
Sea). Likewise there was no Red Sea, no Persian Gulf, Sri Lanka was joined to
southern India, Siberia was joined to Alaska, Australia was joined to New
Guinea - and so on and so forth. It was during this epoch of sea-level rise,
sometimes slow and continuous, sometimes rapid and cataclysmic, that the Ice
Age continent of Sundaland was submerged with only the Malaysian Peninsula and
the Indonesian islands as we know them today high enough to remain above water."
The following map of 20,000 years ago shows Indonesia as part of the Asian
mainland and almost Asia -- as well as significant continental land connections.
And this provides insight as to why virtually all cultures have a Great Flood
mythology / traditions.
Coasts and rivers are often the hubs of civilizations and progress. How many
civilizations and cultures for which we have no clue may have perished without
a sign during the numerous dramatic rises and falls of oceans in the past
100,000-200,000 years since homo sapiens emerged?
I can't see why people living near the coast would have a more advanced
culture than any of those living inland, not without the inlanders copying and
trading with coastal folk. But there are no signs of advanced culture inland so
it's reasonable to suppose that the disparate groups of humans really did
evolve as they appear to have done and not with major civilisations that we
don't know about.
I suspect on this time scale the people would have just moved away from the
rising seas and in a single generation would not have noticed them moving at
all. We may have lost some nice cave paintings but I doubt there is an Atlantis
awaiting discovery.
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"Sundaland (also called the Sundaic region) is a biogeographical
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeographyregion of Southeastern Asia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia which encompasses the Sunda shelf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunda_shelf, the part of the Asian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia continental shelf that was exposed during the
last ice age. The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the
most recent glacial period within the current ice age occurring during the last
years of the Pleistocene, from approximately 110,000 to 12,000 years ago. It
included the Malay Peninsula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_Peninsula on
the Asian mainland, as well as the large islands ofBorneo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo, Java
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(island), and Sumatra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra and their surrounding islands. The eastern
boundary of Sundaland is the Wallace Line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line, identified byAlfred Russel Wallace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace as the eastern boundary of
the range of Asia's land mammal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal fauna, and
thus the boundary of theIndomalaya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indomalaya and
Australasia ecozones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia_ecozone. The
islands east of the Wallace line are known as Wallacea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallacea, and are considered part of Australasia."
Sundaland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland
Sundaland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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region) is a biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia which encompasses the
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Some dating for the Gunung Padang Megalithic Site in the Sundaland region
place it at 16,000 years old.
"Java http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Java Province of Indonesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia, 50 km southwest of the city of Cianjur
or 6 kilometers from Lampegan station. It is the largest megalithic site in all
of Southeastern Asia. The survey believes that Gunung Padang is built in 4
different eras.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang_Megalithic_Site#cite_note-1
Located at 885 metres above sea level, the site covers a hill in a series of
terraces bordered by retaining walls of stone that are accessed by about 400
successive andesite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andesite steps rising about 95
metres. It is covered with massive rectangular stones of volcanic origin. The
Sundanese people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundanese_people consider the
site sacred and believe it was the result of King Siliwangi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Siliwangi's attempt to build a palace in one
night. The asymmetric Punden Berundak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_pyramid
faces northwest, toMount Gede http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gede[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang_Megalithic_Site#cite_note-2 and was
constructed for the purpose of worship. It is located in a position that has
been noted for its geomantic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomancy
andastrological http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological factors.[citation
needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed] Based on various
dating techniques, the site was completed by 5000 BC and quite likely much
earlier.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang_Megalithic_Site#cite_note-3 There
are even preliminary indications that the hill site may itself be an ancient
pyramid construction."
Gunung Padang Megalithic Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang_Megalithic_Site#cite_note-4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang_Megalithic_Site#cite_note-4
Gunung Padang Megalithic Site - Wikipedia, the free en...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang_Megalithic_Site#cite_note-4 Gunung
Padang is a megalithic site located in Karyamukti village, Cianjur regency,
West Java Province of Indonesia, 50 km southwest of the city ...
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NASA
"Climate warming is expected to result in rising sea level. Should this occur,
coastal cities, ports, and wetlands would be threatened with more frequent
flooding, increased beach erosion, and saltwater encroachment into coastal
streams and aquifers. Global sea level has fluctuated widely in the recent
geologic past. It stood 4-6 meters above the present during the last
interglacial period, 125,000 years ago, but was 120 m lower at the peak of the
last ice age, around 20,000 years ago. A study of past sea level fluctuations
provides a longer-term geologic context, which can help us better anticipate
future trends."
NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Sea Level Rise, After the Ice Melted and Today
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/
NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Sea Level Rise, After the Ice...
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/ Science Briefs Sea Level
Rise, After the Ice Melted and Today By Vivien Gornitz — January 2007 Climate
warming is expected to result in rising sea level.
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