tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post4619169333666044722..comments2024-03-28T20:42:14.758-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: Discoveries like this make me want to start studyingFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-48425262354739799192008-12-14T18:11:00.000-08:002008-12-14T18:11:00.000-08:00Chad covered it. Still, the basic lesson may prov...Chad covered it. Still, the basic lesson may prove correct, if in a much more modest way than finding large-block construction cities. Sea levels rose recently enough that sites occupied by anatomically modern humans must now be underwater, and this is a field that we're just starting to see the technology to exploit. Separately, I've read that the old Nile bed has never been excavated; we don't know if there's anything there or not. The sphinx shows water weathering that shouldn't be there if its only as old as the pyramids.<BR/><BR/>Also, contra my old textbooks, the most recent evidence from sites in Europe and the middle east is that stationary settlements preceeded the first agriculture, rather than agriculture driving the first stationary settlements.<BR/><BR/>All told, I agree with Firehand that assuming civilization started with the first known civilization likely fails Occam's razor, even if its how historians and archaeologists have to draw up the timelines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-45499354078079499052008-12-14T16:01:00.000-08:002008-12-14T16:01:00.000-08:00Problem is that discovery was several years ago (2...Problem is that discovery was several years ago (2001) and has been pretty well debunked as a way for Indian Nationalists to put down the west.<BR/>Here's what Wikipedia has to say:<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins_in_the_Gulf_of_Cambay<BR/><BR/>According to archaeologists, the "ruins" are either natural rock formations and result of faulty remote sensing equipment and the "artifacts" recovered are either geofacts or foreign objects introduced to the site by the very strong tidal currents in the Gulf of Cambay. The side scan sonar equipment used to image the bottom of the Gulf may have been faulty, and the claimed supporting evidence is purely circumstantial.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08620796989279048895noreply@blogger.com