Sea levels today are not the same as they were in the past. We are not referring to millions of years ago, just 14,000 years ago. It was very different. The glaciers of Northern Europe and North America melted in a very short time, and the whole world experienced an ‘apocalypse’, a rise in water levels of about 120 metres. Much of the coastline, and part of the hinterland, was submerged.
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A very serious mistake that is continually made by many (not all, fortunately) historians, archaeologists and anthropologists is to think that the world has always been as we know it.
Nothing could be more wrong. The thaw that occurred about 14,000 years ago, the cometary bombardment that occurred about 12,800 years ago (now accepted and proven by the scientific community in its entirety), the Younger Dryas (a mini ice age) that occurred about 11,800 years ago, and the Desertification of the Sahara that began 9,000 years ago, have completely reshaped the environment in which human beings have lived for the past 15,000 years. We are the ‘survivors’ of those events. Others, unfortunately, did not make it.
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Whatever settlement/city/village was found along the coast, and in many cases also inland, is now under the sea, with about 20 metres of mud covering it. So it is not correct to say that we know all the civilisations that have followed in our past. To be precise, we only know the civilisations that were NOT submerged by rising waters, that were NOT hit by the bombardment of comets, and that were NOT in the Sahara before it became a desert. Of course, there are many. But, of course, they are not all …
