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Theory regarding the mediteranean
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Mike Preece
May 23, 2013, 9:26:30 AM5/23/13
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I must begin this post by making it clear that I have next to no knowledge or training in the fields of geology or anthropology. I am merely curious.
I wonder if, over the past 200,000 years, the sea levels in the Med changed significantly. If the sea level was much, much lower than it is now, there might have been vast tracts of what would presumably have been salt marsh. The sea would have been highly saline. The basin would have been fed by glacial melt, mainly through the Bosphorous. If early man had evolved over tens of thousands of years in these salty conditions I wonder if that might have given rise to a fair-haired, fair-skinned version of mankind. If so, the natural trend would have been for them to follow the fresh-water flow through the Black Sea and up into what are now the russian steppes. This seems to tie in with what I have read about the origins of Proto-IndoEuropeans.
I would like to know what better educated minds think of this (most probably ridiculous) theory and welcome links that would allow me to study more.
I wonder if, over the past 200,000 years, the sea levels in the Med changed significantly. If the sea level was much, much lower than it is now, there might have been vast tracts of what would presumably have been salt marsh. The sea would have been highly saline. The basin would have been fed by glacial melt, mainly through the Bosphorous. If early man had evolved over tens of thousands of years in these salty conditions I wonder if that might have given rise to a fair-haired, fair-skinned version of mankind. If so, the natural trend would have been for them to follow the fresh-water flow through the Black Sea and up into what are now the russian steppes. This seems to tie in with what I have read about the origins of Proto-IndoEuropeans.
I would like to know what better educated minds think of this (most probably ridiculous) theory and welcome links that would allow me to study more.
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