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And agriculture has been more or less necessary for advanced civilisation.
@leavethisbotnet of?
My favourite conundrum
Many of the myths do talk about a civilization that was swept away by the (usually) flood
It's no coincidence that major civilisations always emerged around fertile rivers. The Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, whatever the Chinese one is called.
I do like that site Sq.
12,000 years old.
Impressive.
@leavethisbotnet They do, but I wouldn't put too much stock in how the myths assess their own ancestry.
Medieval artists were depicting scenes from the Bronze Age Bible with everyone in medieval armour
The Sumerian King List goes back over 200,000 years.
I'm not convinced these people actually had a concept of pre-civilisation.
So whilst there may have been oral traditions of a flood or higher sea levels.
The actual specifics of how people lived were lost.
Just saying
Most of red sea used to be land before end of Y.D.
sahara did not exist
To my knowledge the Sahara cycles.
Agriculture as far as we know has only been enabled for the past 12-11,000 years.
Coinciding to the end of the Y.D
Which itself lasted just over 1,300 years which isn't long when we're talking major scale.
the issue is, there's very little archeological research being done in sahara
or on the seafloor of red sea
I'd imagine both environments would be somewhat difficult to excavate.
Yeah. Which means that the _as far as we know_ is ... limited
In the former you'd need a *lead*, you can't just dig up millions of square kilometres of sand and *hope* you find something no evidence exists for.
In the latter... it's covered by water. And still no leads.
there are the eye of sahara theories
and the south america theories
which do not seem entirely unplausible
But are the theories based on what there is actually indicative theories for, or just speculation based on what *could've* been.
The fact the Sahara was not always a desert does not mean the land was suitable for farming.
Most land wasn't until the earth warmed up *following* the Y.D
And even when we invented agriculture it took another five thousand years for the first city to emerge.
And civilisation generally.
Assuming that length of time before the Y.D you'd end up back in the Ice Age.
There are maps that show the Antarcitca, before it was discovered in 17th (?) century.
And the way Antarctica is shown there corresponds to how it would've looked before end of Y.D.