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 ...
It was probably originally a fish trap to trap fish when the tide came in and went out. But the sea level would have still needed to be lower for it to work.
Hmmmm. A submerged bridge. Those nasty cavemen that invented fire caused the first glowbull warming. Just look what they did. Our turn is next.
OR-—IT SUNK DUE TO A SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
to get to the other side.
Yes, land masses rise and sink due to earthquakes.
There is a part of Kingston, Jamaica that sunk in 1692. This was part of the city where the PIRATES of the Caribbean used as a base in the 1600s. The 1692 earthquake sunk Port Royal.
ARRRR!
what kind of SUVs did they drive ?
Roman motorized chariots.
Neither. Thats where they built it. In a flooded cave, underwater.
Without knowing the direction it runs (parallel with or perpendicular to the coast) there’s no basis to say that. The Romans used artificial pools that would accumulate fish during high tide and strand them in low tide, and some of those are still visible. The method antedates the Romans.
The ones in Crete, contrary to claims, are not a good way to measure sealevel change, because the Aegean is known for seismic activity and changes in ground and seabed levels, reports of this go back to antiquity.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Roman+fish+traps+coast+of+mediterranean
Yep, absolutely. Land can sink just as well as sea levels can rise. As you already know. I suspect you are already hip to Sunken Civilizations right?... :)
It’s a bridge. If it were a fish trap, they’d have figured that out.
I made it to Mallorca in the early 60’s, but of course, I missed the bridge.
So you had to swim? ;^)
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