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Science 22 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5487, pp. 2021 - 2022
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5487.2021a
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ARCHAELOGY:
A Victim of the Black Sea Flood Found

Richard A. Kerr

Archaeologists are mulling over tantalizing images of what appears to have been a house of wood and mud littered with human artifacts now 91 meters beneath the Black Sea. The find lends further credence to the claims of two oceanographers that a torrent equaling 200 Niagara Falls cascaded from the Mediterranean Sea 7500 years ago, driving Neolithic peoples living along the Black Sea coastline inland. But whether the catastrophe gave rise to the biblical account of Noah's Flood and spread farming into central Europe, as the researchers speculate, we can't yet say.

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