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[sovay]

"Zealandia—a new continent submerged in the southwest Pacific—is a step closer to being recognised, the authors of a new scientific paper claim."

Well, I'm glad everybody figured out where Atlantis went.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And it seems just the other day that the experts were assuring us that Atlantis was a myth because it was absolutely certain that no extensive sunken land masses exist anywhere.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

See also the subtitle of this blog.

I'm so excited about what we're going to learn from this. Hopefully parts of it will help stave off climate change denial. Moreover, I'm totally excited about the idea of using archeology techniques to see if people really did live there at one point.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm excited by anything that helps us understand the deep history of our planet.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Moreover, I'm totally excited about the idea of using archeology techniques to see if people really did live there at one point.

If it sank a minimum of 60 million years ago, the answer to that is a firm "no, they didn't." Lucy the Australopithecine is only about 3.2 million years old. And sadly, even if it were more recent, needles in haystacks do not even begin to compare to the challenge of finding signs of human presence across an underwater mass that large.

<removes Archaeologist Hat>

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Oh well, in my defense, I did read this right after getting up. It's still interesting to contemplate what they'll find.