The irony for me is that this morning I started watching a show called Hunting Atlantis which focuses on both geology and archaeology of that region.
Even though the show’s bias is on finding evidence of Atlantis, it outlines the glaring gaps in archaeology and the ongoing struggle [ahem] of evolution of known history for this region.
It’s tough to tolerate the show’s ‘campiness’, but there IS some good science.
I don’t have much use for the late Gavin Menzies, but like a lot of fringe authors, he has dug out some obscure facts that are generally ignored because of, well, reverse cherry picking. :^)
It is discoveries like this one that make me think that the estimates of human population in the ancient world are extremely low.
For instance the large cities in the Incan empire that are being discovered with Satellites.
It seems that the human population exploded rapidly at the end of the last ice age.