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       Decoding Gobekli Tepe with Archaeoastronomy (2017) [pdf]
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2021-02-12 17:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | yudlejoza wrote:
       | Off-topic: Flood myths are in so many religions. Large-scale or
       | global flooding. Mass devastation.
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       | If there is so much smoke there's gotta be fire.
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       | If you look at last glacial maximum, sea-levels were 110-120m
       | below where they are today. They rose from below 100m to 0m in a
       | matter of only about 8000 years (13000 BC to 5000 BC) [0].
       | Persian gulf region was fertile land, got flooded and turned into
       | a gulf. The sea-level rise was observed/experienced all over the
       | world.
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       | At one point the sea-level rise was so fast it was 2-3m in one
       | lifetime. This much vertical change in coastal regions can change
       | the landscape by 100s of meters horizontally. So you could be
       | living in that time and hearing stories from your grandfather
       | about the vast amount of land that got flooded over their
       | lifetime.
       | 
       | Word-of-mouth "history became legend. Legend became myth" (to
       | quote LOTR).
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       | Written history did not start until much later (Gilgamesh
       | ~2100BC, Herodotus ~450BC, neither considered serious/rigorous
       | historical works).
       | 
       | I think it's a highly valid theory that sea-level rise led to
       | flood myths in so many regions and so many religions all over the
       | world.
       | 
       | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise
        
         | choxi wrote:
         | There's also a growing body of research that indicates a comet
         | impact is what triggered the end of the last ice age, which
         | would very well have caused massive floods. Randall Carlson has
         | a lot of fascinating theories in this area.
        
           | eloff wrote:
           | This is also a good point, but it would have mostly affected
           | North America which was sparsely populated.
        
         | eloff wrote:
         | Also many river systems would have seen crazy flooding as the
         | glaciers melted. Especially when ice dams formed and burst.
         | Look to the American West to see floods that make Niagara falls
         | look like a rain gutter.
        
         | simonh wrote:
         | There were several sea rise pulses during that period where the
         | sea level role by about 1 metre per 20 years for well over a
         | century. Given that it wasn't unknown for adult Neolithic
         | people to live into their 60s or even 70s, the elders in a
         | group would likely have seen around 3 metres of sea level rise
         | on their lifetimes. Also sudden catastrophic flood events must
         | have occurred during a period of such massive change,
         | especially given human populations generally are concentrated
         | near rivers and the coast.
        
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