Here goes the story, yes it is a story until more meat is put on to the bones.
Currently it's based more on hints and circumstantial evidence.
But allow me to go back to telling the story.
Hunter-gatherers had the region to themselves during the Ice Age. By the end of it, life as they knew it changed dramatically. Mega-fauna gradually died out and weather had oscillations between extremely dry and very wet. As ice caps melted, vast amounts of water made the level of global ocean rise and Mediterranean Sea slowly reclaimed territories from Balkan peninsula.
According to Columbia University geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman, local population must have witnessed a catastrophic event.
During the last Ice Age the Black Sea was cut off from Mediterranean and became a standalone lake a fraction in surface to what we see today and at about 100 m lower level. When the global ocean level reached the height of Bosphorus, it simply discharged with the force of hundreds Niagara falls.
Was that even transmitted from generation to generation for millennia and finally recorded by Assyrian tablets and the Bible? It would be another example of powerful messages faring through ages to reach to us.
But this was just the avant-premiere of another flood in the region, a flood of people.
Changing weather patterns put a lot of stress on herbivores, that were migrating along ancestral routes following the cycles of precipitation. Their numbers dwindled and their routes became unpredictable to the despair of hunters.
These environment changes put human ingenuity to the test and as a result in several places in the world, a revolution started in the form of agriculture, dubbed the Neolithic Revolution, and agriculture in the Fertile Crescent deeply impacted our region.
Agriculture produced more food than ever before and a sudden population growth. By then communities could grow to thousands of people, like Çatalhöyük neolithic town, and competition for farmland and pastures started. More and more people were looking for places to do what they learned: grow crops and drive herds.
Recent genetic research shows the tremendous success of Middle Easterners in colonizing the world armed with this new technology, the agriculture.
More to that soon.
Currently it's based more on hints and circumstantial evidence.
But allow me to go back to telling the story.
Hunter-gatherers had the region to themselves during the Ice Age. By the end of it, life as they knew it changed dramatically. Mega-fauna gradually died out and weather had oscillations between extremely dry and very wet. As ice caps melted, vast amounts of water made the level of global ocean rise and Mediterranean Sea slowly reclaimed territories from Balkan peninsula.
According to Columbia University geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman, local population must have witnessed a catastrophic event.
During the last Ice Age the Black Sea was cut off from Mediterranean and became a standalone lake a fraction in surface to what we see today and at about 100 m lower level. When the global ocean level reached the height of Bosphorus, it simply discharged with the force of hundreds Niagara falls.
Was that even transmitted from generation to generation for millennia and finally recorded by Assyrian tablets and the Bible? It would be another example of powerful messages faring through ages to reach to us.
But this was just the avant-premiere of another flood in the region, a flood of people.
Changing weather patterns put a lot of stress on herbivores, that were migrating along ancestral routes following the cycles of precipitation. Their numbers dwindled and their routes became unpredictable to the despair of hunters.
These environment changes put human ingenuity to the test and as a result in several places in the world, a revolution started in the form of agriculture, dubbed the Neolithic Revolution, and agriculture in the Fertile Crescent deeply impacted our region.
Agriculture produced more food than ever before and a sudden population growth. By then communities could grow to thousands of people, like Çatalhöyük neolithic town, and competition for farmland and pastures started. More and more people were looking for places to do what they learned: grow crops and drive herds.
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Recent genetic research shows the tremendous success of Middle Easterners in colonizing the world armed with this new technology, the agriculture.
More to that soon.
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