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On 11/3/24 8:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> The timing is off by orders of magnitude, but it did happen when the Atlantic
> opened up and the Alps-Apallachians folded upwards.
Ummmmm ... were barely any mammals back then. They
looked like shrews.
The Appalachians formed because the spread of the
Atlantic put pressure there. The Alps formed (and
are still forming) because the African plate is
pushing up and under Europe. Someday, no more Med.
> Is it possible some
> pre-human people actually had a memory of this they passed down orally?
PRE-human ? You're talking just the past maybe 3 million
years there. That's barely a blink in geo time.
As said, there no doubt WERE huge floods as the ice-age
quickly ended. Early civs, and story trees, already
existed. The floods weren't all at the same time and
certainly did NOT cover the world. However the whole
of the, say, Tigris/Euphrates flood plain MAY have
turned into a big lake for awhile. That would have
SEEMED to be a 'world flood' to anyone there. It'd
be a compelling story, likely to stick.
Genetic archeology however does NOT show any especially
large human DNA bottleneck from that time. MOST people
did NOT get flooded away. However seacoast settlements
had to be abandoned, moved much further inland, as the
overall sea level rose. LOTS of archeology to be had,
under 300' of ocean.
> And
> the Caucasian peoples did originate in the Cavcas Mts where Mt Ararat does
> have what seems as Noah's Ark. Iranian and Armenian are the proto Cavcasian,
> aka IndoEuropean, languages.
Well, 'caucasians' and friends are hardly the whole
of Humanity.
However Caucs and Semites DID write down the old
stories eventually - the ones we find in various
religious texts from in and around the Levant and
Mesopotamia. Adding a 'religion' angle made the
stories all the more 'sticky'.