Megalithic shipping and trade routes

[Boreades]

"the tropes of television demands he crashes back to earth next week."
That's tragic. Will he be stuck with Lillybet?

I know my station.
Paddington.

Three ha'pence a foot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqHHzb1m4CM

[hvered]

There are still forests in Lebanon. Looks like they ran out of copper rather than trees.

Countryfile's Adam from Adam's Farm brought some of his Exmoor ponies over to some national park or other to help keep scrubland, and indeed trees, at bay. If the Lebanese miners had used ponies, and kept them hanging around as a tourist attraction a la New Forest, Dartmoor, etc., there'd no doubt be less tree cover now.

[Boreades]

Fair enough. Running out of copper would stop the copper mining for sure. But I'm still fairly sure that on Cyprus it was running out of the trees that did it. Or the ponies ate them?

[Mick Harper]

Bowdun Head seems to me one of ours.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php ... 2#comments

[hvered]

That would certainly be a useful land/sea-mark, presumably a beacon site, because continuing north on the 'Stonehenge meridian' would end at the eastern edge of the mainland, marked nowadays by Rattray Head lighthouse.

[TisILeclerc]

Here's a video about the Black Sea and the cultures that lived there at the end of the ice age.

The various speakers raise issues that appear to overturn many preconceived ideas held by normal academics. The speakers are from a variety of countries so it would appear that these ideas have spread worldwide.

They question the reliability of carbon dating and at one point claim the evidence shows to the ice age lasting to a much more recent period than the usual one accepted. They also show that 'stone age' people were living next to 'bronze age' people.

The Black Sea did not flood immediately and although it was quick it was much slower than usually accepted. The extra weight of water triggered off volcanic activity which had a disastrous effect on the climate in nearby regions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKakFvlD5MM

[Boreades]

How far did that volcanic activity spread?

[TisILeclerc]

Borry

'How far did that volcanic activity spread?'

It's a bit difficult to make out what they are saying most of the time. But the shouty American mentions Santorini and Etna. Whether or not he meant they were a direct result of the flooding of the Black Sea I don't know.

The other commentators mention the fact that as the Black Sea filled the land underneath sank while the surrounding land rose. Vertical block faulting is seen around the coast especially the north and eastern coast lines.

I would imagine all of this pressure would have caused the Thera/Santorini volcano to erupt for the final time. It had already erupted many times in the past. But this time it appears to have blown up completely.

Archaeologists have found harbours and other settlements at a hundred metres or about three hundred feet below the surface. What happened to the people who were displaced? One theory, explored in another youtube video, suggests they became the 'Sea Peoples' who ravaged the eastern Mediterranean and may have destroyed the Minoan civilisation in the process.

[Boreades]

What am I offered for the idea that it was the same kind of unusual seismic activity that "did" for Sodom and Gomorrah?

Fire and brimstone from some volcano somewhere nearby?

[hvered]

There are no volcanoes, not even extinct ones, in the area (only the Golan Heights which are much further north). All that salt... the residue of a 'dead sea' not lava.