[HN Gopher] Decoding Gobekli Tepe with Archaeoastronomy (2017) [... ___________________________________________________________________ Decoding Gobekli Tepe with Archaeoastronomy (2017) [pdf] Author : diodorus Score : 19 points Date : 2021-02-12 17:29 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (maajournal.com) (TXT) w3m dump (maajournal.com) | yudlejoza wrote: | Off-topic: Flood myths are in so many religions. Large-scale or | global flooding. Mass devastation. | | If there is so much smoke there's gotta be fire. | | 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. | | 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). | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-13 23:00 UTC)