[rational-future]

I've done some diving in the Black Sea and have stumbled upon a number of structures that looked like human-made artifacts. They are near the shore lines as they were before the end of the last glacial period. I'm personally 99% sure there was a somewhat advanced civilization at that time.

[benbreen]

One theory for the urheimat (homeland) of the Indo-Europeans and the technology of chariots involves the Black Sea littoral:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis

[turder]

  Look up Black Sea deluge theory. Black sea was supposedly flooded (a bit later than the actual sea level rise from the ice melting after the ice age), around 7500 years ago, with levels rising up to 70m and turning it from a freshwater lake into Black Sea, and increasing its size 1.5x-2x.
  That event is one of possible explanations for the spread of what became Indo-European language/culture/people group, which a good deal of us belong to.
  Until the evidence for the Black Sea deluge was found, the Indo-Europeans were theoreticized to have come from area north of Black Sea (it is still so), but I think the initial push came from the now flooded areas.

[mmanfrin]

Easier to read:

Look up Black Sea deluge theory. Black sea was supposedly flooded (a bit later than the actual sea level rise from the ice melting after the ice age), around 7500 years ago, with levels rising up to 70m and turning it from a freshwater lake into Black Sea, and increasing its size 1.5x-2x.

That event is one of possible explanations for the spread of what became Indo-European language/culture/people group, which a good deal of us belong to.

Until the evidence for the Black Sea deluge was found, the Indo-Europeans were theoreticized to have come from area north of Black Sea (it is still so), but I think the initial push came from the now flooded areas.

[abritinthebay]

While true that it's a hypothesis - there's very little evidence for it and a bunch against.

[Asbostos]

How sure were you that the things you saw were man-made? If I thought I'd discovered a 10,000 year old object, it would be worth notifying an archeologist.

[williamjennings]

The Black Sea is aquatically contiguous with the Mediterranean, so it is safe to say that there was a spanning civilization in that climate zone, after humanity migrated north of the Sahara.

Some of the metals and ceramics found in these sites are more detailed than modern day equivalents, because there was an abundance of exquisite raw materials. There is not any blatant evidence to show advanced means of manufacture, or technology hence.