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[Fred Nerks]

Evidence of modern human habitation of the Arabian peninsula dates back at least 100,000 years but recent analyses of Neolithic settlements along the coast of the Persian Gulf conclude that there was once a robust Neolithic culture which lived in the now-flooded lowlands around 9-11,000 years ago.

The Al Maqar culture would have been contemporary with the Persian Gulf culture and may even have enjoyed close ties with those communities. The Al-Maqar culture was sophisticated enough to have left behind “mummified skeletons, arrowheads, scrapers, grain grinders, tools for spinning and weaving, and other tools that are evidence of a civilization that is skilled in handicrafts.”

http://history.sf-fandom.com/2011/08/25/closing-in-on-the-archaeological-garden-of-eden/

[Fred Nerks]

In the last decade, archaeologists have identified over 60 settlements along the shores of the Persian Gulf, dating to about 7,500 years ago. The scattered camps of Neolithic hunter-gatherers were already known, but these were settlements, occupied by modern people who built permanent stone houses, made fine decorated pottery and sophisticated ‘pressure-flaked’ tools of flint, grew crops, domesticated animals, constructed sea-worthy boats and established long-distance trading networks.

Where did they come from? Such civilisations, if they were civilisations do not spring up overnight and Rose insubstantiality and conveniently claims that 'evidence' of preceding populations is missing because it is hidden beneath the Persian Gulf. He said, “These new colonists may have come from the heart of the Persian Gulf, displaced by rising water levels that plunged the once fertile landscape beneath the waters of the Indian Ocean.”

“It is no coincidence,” he went on, “that the founding of such remarkably well developed [pre-Arab] communities along the shoreline corresponds with the flooding of the Persian Gulf basin around 8,000 years ago.”

However, if such a 'Culture' or 'Civilisation' as Rose claims to exist beneath the waters of the Persian Gulf, they were perhaps the extended communities of the Zagros people rather than romanticised claim of East African origin.

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[BenLurkin]

As the glaciers melted the sea rose 400 feet in some places. Just imagine all the artifacts of the antediluvian civilization which are lost on the sea floor just off the coast.....