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European Hunter-Gatherers Sailed to North Africa 8,500 Years Ago
Archaeology Magazine ^ | March 24, 2025 | editors / unattributed / Live Science

Posted on 03/27/2025 7:49:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: wildcard_redneck; ModelBreaker; gundog

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21 posted on 03/27/2025 10:24:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Wasn’t N. Africa mostly desert then and Sicily/S. Italy pretty fertile then? If so, why would anyone want to go there? Enlighten me.


22 posted on 03/27/2025 10:32:31 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: ckilmer

This event is considered the most abrupt global-scale environmental shift since the extinction of the dinosaurs.


Other than the massive comet debris bombardment in 10,900 BC which burned off 10% of the Earth’s vegetation (and a lot of oxygen), ushered in the 1,000 yearlong Younger Dryas Event - the coldest period recorded, caused the Ice Cap to fully melt, raising the sea level worldwide 400 feet, and caused the extinction of the Mega Fauna (woolly mammoths etc).

Other than that, nothing happened.


23 posted on 03/27/2025 10:55:52 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SunkenCiv
20,000 years ago - at glacial peak - the sea miles between Sicily and Tunisia would have been reduced, because ocean sea level was 125 feet to 300 feet lower.

Probably, several small islands emerged, too.

However, I have no idea how to calculate that.

24 posted on 03/27/2025 11:31:02 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

That’s where the Celts crossed into North Africa.


25 posted on 03/27/2025 2:08:02 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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