7,000 Year-Old Preserved Road Found in Adriatic Sea Off Korcula [Neolithic]

Total Croatia News ^ | May 7, 2023 | Paul Bradbury

[SunkenCiv]

Best known as the supposed birthplace of Marco Polo... the latest discovery, which has been posted on Facebook by the Univerity of Zadar - a translation of which is below.

In the underwater archaeological research of the submerged Neolithic site of Soline on the island of Korčula, archaeologists found remains that surprised even them. Namely, under the deposits of sea mud, a road was discovered that connected the sunken prehistoric settlement of the Hvar culture with the coast of the island of Korčula.

These are carefully stacked stone slabs that were part of a four-meter-wide communication that connected the artificially created island to the coast. By radiocarbon analysis of preserved wood found in the last campaign, the entire settlement was dated around 4,900 years before Christ. People walked on this communication and that almost 7,000 years ago...

At the same time, on the other side of the island of Korčula, archaeologists from the University of Zadar are conducting land research near Gradina bay near Vela Luka. It was Igor Borzić, the head of the research, who noticed the strange structures in the sea of the bay.
The archaeological team diving at the Soline site inspected the central part of the Gradina bay, and to everyone's delight, the existence of a settlement almost identical to the one at Soline was determined at a depth of 4 to 5 meters. Neolithic artifacts such as flint blades, stone axes, and fragments of millstones were found at the site.

[SunkenCiv]

Arheolozi su kod Korčule ispod mora pronašli cestu staru 7.000 godina (snimio: Mate Parica)

Cesta stara 7.000 godina u podmorju kod Koručule | 1:45
Sveučilište u Zadru Official | 109 subscribers | 140,809 views | May 6, 2023

[Red Badger]

How did they breathe underwater?.................

[ClearCase_guy]

Seas rise.
Seas fall.

Neolithic SUVs suspected.

[GaltAdonis]

227 foot long snorkel. (?)

[SunkenCiv]

the road:

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/media/k2/items/cache/e83a8c23f1691c7664963c3ac8d4c631_XL.jpg

drone shots of the submerged site:

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/images/korcula-road_2.jpg

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/images/korcula-road_3.jpg

some of the personnel:

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/images/korcula-road_4.jpg

[Jim W N]

Old maybe but I question 7000 years old.

[SunkenCiv]

Neolithic, but nothing to do with "The Matrix".

[Boogieman]

Apparently, you can go snorkeling right above the site if you want to take a nice vacation. They just won’t let you touch anything:

https://www.korculainfo.com/soline-archaeological-site/

[SunkenCiv]

University of Zadar Facebook

[alternatives?]

Could it be:

Land rises.
Land falls.

[PapaBear3625]

Around that time, as we were coming out of the last glacial maximum (ice age), sea level rose by about 100 meters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise

[G Larry]

Somebody send this to Mayor Pete...

[bunkerhill7]

You’ll take the high road and I’ll take the low road
And I’ll be in Croatia afore ye
Where me and my true love will never meet again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Korcula.

[lizma2]

Geologist have stated that most of the Mediterranean Sea had at one time dried up and the Sahara desert has river beds.

[GingisK]

That is a bigger pothole than usual.

[GingisK]

Ultra cool! I love those finds.

[M Kehoe]

I am Zadar, ruler of the universe.

I put that road there.

Now I’m charging a toll.

Two oxen for passage.

5.56mm

[ThanhPhero]

AAround 7000 years ago that was all dry land. The ice age glaciers wre breaking up for the last time and the ocean level started to rise. It rose catastrophically at first, then subsided then began its slow rise that continues to this day. Global warming is the culprit, global warming before 7000 years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

from the FRchives:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1493781/posts?page=9#9

[SunkenCiv]

LOL