In the Persian Gulf, no less.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...151609.htm
Generally the right place and generally the right time for the early Sumerians (Epic of Ziusudra...later reworked into the Akkadian tale of Atrahasis and then the Babylonian Gilgamesh before being borrowed and adapted by the much later "Hebrews") to account for the flood legends in those ancient cultures.
Sure to send fundies into paroxysms of denial!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...151609.htm
Quote:ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2010) — A once fertile landmass now submerged beneath the Persian Gulf may have been home to some of the earliest human populations outside Africa, according to an article published in Current Anthropology.
Jeffrey Rose, an archaeologist and researcher with the University of Birmingham in the U.K., says that the area in and around this "Persian Gulf Oasis" may have been host to humans for over 100,000 years before it was swallowed up by the Indian Ocean around 8,000 years ago. Rose's hypothesis introduces a "new and substantial cast of characters" to the human history of the Near East, and suggests that humans may have established permanent settlements in the region thousands of years before current migration models suppose.
Generally the right place and generally the right time for the early Sumerians (Epic of Ziusudra...later reworked into the Akkadian tale of Atrahasis and then the Babylonian Gilgamesh before being borrowed and adapted by the much later "Hebrews") to account for the flood legends in those ancient cultures.
Sure to send fundies into paroxysms of denial!
