An underwater view of the limestone bridge located inside a submerged cave.Image credit: Bogdan Onac |
Posted on 09/03/2024 6:23:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
After analyzing a submerged bridge found in a Spanish cave, researchers have determined that humans inhabited the area earlier than previously thought.
A submerged, human-constructed limestone bridge found inside a cave on a Spanish island is much older than previously thought, pushing back the record of when humans inhabited the location, a new study finds.
Researchers discovered the limestone bridge in 2000 during a scuba-diving expedition inside the flooded cave in Mallorca, a Mediterranean island located off the eastern shore of Spain's mainland. At the time, researchers determined that the 25-foot-long (7.6 meters) bridge, which consists of large limestone blocks stacked on top of each other, was built around 4,400 years ago, according to a study published Friday (Aug. 30) in the journal Communications Earth & Environment...
In addition to the broken artifacts, the cave was littered with bones from a now-extinct goat-antelope known as Myotragus balearicus, according to a statement from the university.
However, when people occupied the cave still remained unclear.
Even though Mallorca is a large island, it was one of the last to be inhabited in the Mediterranean...
Upon analyzing the mineral deposits, which are also known as speleothems, researchers determined that the bridge was constructed approximately 6,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of human presence on the island by 1,600 years...
The researchers said further research is necessary to determine why Mallorca was settled later than other islands in the region, but it could be because the island lacked resources needed for survival, such as farmable land.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
An underwater view of the limestone bridge located inside a submerged cave.Image credit: Bogdan Onac |
If only the GW Cultists would learn from this. The sea level rose long before SUVs, power plants and air conditioners.
Perhaps I’m stupid, not the first time, but who and why build a bridge in a cave?
WHERE’S THAT CONFOUNDED BRIDGE?..................
Thanks, SunkenCiv.
Balearic Island cave goat or Myotragus balearicus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn
Interesting history on piles of rocks.
Man has been piling rocks for a long time.
Some people need hobbies... ;)
Quit fighting the law, the law won.
Zep’s answer to the Stones’ “Turd on the Run”. ;^)
What? A bridge under water? I wonder where all that water came from?
isn’t it obvious? men who built stuff long long ago were still all cave-dwelling Neanderthals...hence the bridge in a cave. we’ve come a long way baby!
In those days, rocks is all they had laying around.
How did humans build that bridge under water?
Oh, they didn’t? You mean the sea rose over the last 6,000 years - and it had nothing to do with man-made global warming?
They were mermaids. Weird that they even needed a bridge...
Did the bridge sink or did the water level rise? Or both?
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