To: SunkenCiv
34KBP would have been near a glacial maximum. The sea level would have been 200 - 300 ft. lower at that time than in the photo.
5 posted on
05/01/2011 10:38:17 AM PDT by
pierrem15
(Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
To: pierrem15
"We found that instead of sitting where he had been before, in a cold period, it was actually in a much warmer interstadial [a relatively warm period within the ice age]. We think that’s why people were there."
Oops. The sea level still would have been much lower.
6 posted on
05/01/2011 10:42:06 AM PDT by
pierrem15
(Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
To: pierrem15
That’s right, and that’s even pointed out, I may have omitted it from the excerpting.
7 posted on
05/01/2011 5:55:43 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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