[Alas Babylon!]

I would sincerely be interested in what lies under the ocean all along the West and East coasts. During the last glaciation, sea levels were almost 300 feet lower than today. If people were moving down the coasts, it seems that most of their campsites were close to the beach, and now, therefore, underwater.

I heard about a dredging in British Columbia that picked up some stone axes, etc, from the bottom of a channel/sound. What more goodies lie beneath?

[blam]

"During the last glaciation, sea levels were almost 300 feet lower than today."

300-500Ft, most accept 400ft.

"I heard about a dredging in British Columbia that picked up some stone axes, etc, from the bottom of a channel/sound. "

Yup. That was something. They calculated where human settlement would most likely have been during the Ice Age and went dredging there. Amazingly, they found human artifacts.

I have some 7,000 year old wood dredged from Santa Rosa Sound in Florida that was once part of a coastal forest.

[blam]

"I heard about a dredging in British Columbia that picked up some stone axes, etc, from the bottom of a channel/sound. What more goodies lie beneath?"

Yup. I read about that too. They picked what seemed would be a good human occupation site and then went dredging. Bingo!

[muawiyah]

It's not just that the oceans were lower, the alluvial fans were lower. That's our natural range where our food lives, whether plant or animal.

When the oceans rose there was undoubtedly a terrible famine for many centuries until new alluvial fans were created along the margins of the ocean.