Comment #9 ping
With this exciting find dated around 7500 years ago, I wonder if it dates before or after the eruption of Mt. Mazama (Crater Lake). This eruption left a crater 6 miles in diameter, compared with Pinitubo’s 3 mile diameter crater. Cubed this would mean about 16 times as much atmosphere disrupting dust causing weird world-wide weather. And it was also much more in the Northern Hemisphere. I have theorized that this event may have led to weird weather that was a source for some of the flood legends. Remember our own 500 year flood in the Mississippi watershed. If my theory is correct, this could have really pulled the plug on promising developing civilizations of that period. Food shortages, raids, warfare, destruction and all that stuff.
Incidently, wasn’t a large copper implement found with the Iceman at about 5000 years ago?
A copper axe and I've read that that discover moved the 'Copper Age' back by 1,000 years.
Oetzi, 5,300 years old.
Metal tools of any kind had to be on the expensive side to own in those days.
I’ve always wondered if having such things left laying around long enough to get buried with junk items and debris points to a raid or other sort of calamitous site destruction.
“Remember our own 500 year flood in the Mississippi watershed.”
Where is that on the timeline in comparison with the Anastazi?