11,500 Year Old Evidence of Humans Impacting the Environment Found at Dead Sea Site
A new TAU study has uncovered the earliest known geological indications of man-made impact on geological processes, in particular erosion of the surface, from 11,500 years ago. Within a core sample retrieved from the Dead Sea, researchers discovered basin-wide erosion rates dramatically incompatible with known tectonic and climatic regimes of the period recorded.
Credit: TAU
The research was conducted by TAU post-doctoral student Dr. Yin Lu and in collaboration with Prof. Dani Nadel and Prof. Nicolas Waldman, both of the University of Haifa. It took place as part of the Dead Sea Deep Drilling project, which harnessed a 1,500-foot-deep drill core to delve into the Dead Sea basin. The core sample provided the team with a sediment record of the last 220,000 years.
The newly-discovered erosion occurred during the Neolithic Revolution, the wide-scale transition of human cultures from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement. The shift resulted in an exponentially larger human population on the planet.
“Natural vegetation was replaced by crops, animals were domesticated, grazing reduced the natural plant cover, and deforestation provided more area for grazing,” said Prof. Marco. “All these resulted in the intensified erosion of the surface and increased sedimentation, which we discovered in the Dead Sea core sample.”
A natural laboratory in the Dead Sea
The Dead Sea drainage basin serves as a natural laboratory for understanding how sedimentation rates in a deep basin are related to climate change, tectonics, and man-made impacts on the landscape.
“We noted a sharp threefold increase in the fine sand that was carried into the Dead Sea by seasonal floods,” said Prof. Marco. “This intensified erosion is incompatible with tectonic and climatic regimes during the Holocene, the geological epoch that began after the Pleistocene some 11,700 years ago.”
The researchers are currently in the process of recovering the record of earthquakes from the same drill core. “We have identified disturbances in the sediment layers that were triggered by the shaking of the lake bottom,” Prof. Marco said. “It will provide us with a 220,000-year record — the most extensive earthquake record in the world.”
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/06/11500-year-old-evidence-of-humans.html
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TAU should know that man has only been on earth for about 6,000 years. Their own calendar puts this year at 5777. The Bible confirms that this is approximately the time of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve. Most Jews do believe this.
I was under the impression there was 2 creation events. Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 2:07. There is no date on the first one (where God created man and women to go forth and multiply), but there is a good estimation on Adam & Eves creation, the most recent that Genesis 2 accounts for and they would appear to be a more spiritually unique human having a more direct connect ability with God. It helps to account for the people already populating the earth, from which Cain having been cast out found his wife.
That bag of dead sea salt I bought from Walmart didn’t get rid of my athletes foot.