Posted on 06/09/2015 2:07:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The team found 14,000-year-old evidence that could lead to a new understanding of culture and the environment at the dawn of human civilization in the region. At that time, this area used to get much more rain and was able to sustain human settlement...
Underneath the volcanic basalt on the windswept, arid and rocky plain, within sight of the Syrian border, the bones of a child and adult are slowly coming to the surface after at least 14,000 years entombed in the desert.
By analysing bones, seeds and other remains scientists hope to discover that in this area, 14.000 years ago, humans began farming, settling and forming large social groups.
“We can then identify different species of plants, which in turn will tell us what sorts of things were growing out here. It’s hard to imagine right now because it’s all desert, but back many, many years ago, it was actually really nice and very, very green, and we can tell that from these plant remains,” says finds co-ordinator Erin Estrup.
The team hopes that further discoveries in the desert will help them to build a clearer picture of how the environment and climate changed over time, and the impact this had on the development of human civilization in the area.
(Excerpt) Read more at euronews.com ...
At that time, this area used to get much more rain .....Damn global warming.
Global warming is right. 14000 years ago the ice age was going strong. The region was wetter then because the continental glaciers shifted weather patterns.
Egypt use to have much more water too when the pyramids were being built.
Sorry, but I can’t get past the racism in the name “Black Desert”.
Actually, 14,000 ya the ice age was already in retreat, but then not quite 13,000 ya something severe happened and drove us back into the Younger Dryas 1500 year colder period. OK, Sunken Civ, time for Firestone’s book.
It was also interesting that, from the way the text reads, that the human remains were under basalt. That could mean volcanic activity, or it could mean that basaltic debris later covered the remains through erosion or whatnot.
;’)
Sort of like one of those Star Trek away teams that visits a once fertile planet that desertified.
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