2023-12-23 14:58:16
The city of Atlantis may only be a legend, but the myth could become reality as an Australian colony believed to have been inhabited at the end of the Paleolithic era has been found submerged.
This is what research published in the “Quaternary Science Rebieds” revealed. According to scientists, several thousand people (between 50,000 and 500,000) would have settled on the 647.5 km2 territory before it was covered with water, reported the “New York Post”.
The first half of the colony, located in the Kimberley region, is believed to have drowned between 12,000 and 9,000 years ago, during the first period of rapid sea level rise across the world.
“This probably caused a withdrawal of human populations, resulting in peaks of professional intensity at archaeological sites,” the researchers pointed out in their study.
Scientists intend to continue their research to learn the history of this colony.
“Today, submerged continental margins clearly played an important role in early human expansions across the globe. The rise of underwater archeology in Australia will contribute to a growing global picture of early human migrations and the impact of climate change on Late Pleistocene human populations,” the study said.
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