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‘Lost civilizations’ under the sea. Scientists want to find them before it's too late - C C - Feb 7, 2024
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxjde/there-are-lost-civilizations-under-the-sea-scientists-want-to-find-them-before-its-too-late
INTRO: The remnants of some ancient human civilizations are currently lost beneath the sea, and scientists are rushing to find and study them before modern factors like coastal development makes it impossible.
As reported by Popular Mechanics last week, the University of Bradford in the U.K. recently received a grant worth roughly $12 million from the European Council to, as a press release put it, “hunt for lost civilizations beneath [the] Baltic and North Sea.” Researchers plan on using the latest technology, including AI, to map the seabed and search for prehistoric settlements that were submerged thousands of years ago when sea levels rose due to climate factors.
“Twenty-thousand years ago, the global sea level was 130 meters lower than at present,” Professor Vincent Gaffney, an archaeologist from the University of Bradford, said in a statement. “With progressive global warming and sea-level rise, unique landscapes, home to human societies for millennia, disappeared. We know almost nothing about the people who lived on these great plains.”
Using the latest tech, researchers in Europe have recently discovered numerous underwater signs of prehistoric peoples... (MORE - details)