Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "World of Antiquity" channel.

I suspect if (note the IF) there was a neolithic culture living along the Nile circa 10,000 years ago the evidence is mostly buried in the silt now filling the Nile River Valley. Just how much lower was the Nile relative to it's current level then. I have a had time believing that the Nile was close to it's current level when sea levels were 100+ meters lower than they are today. The amount that we know about the past isn't squat compared to what was actually going on. We know that cultures were building crude stone structures on what is now the bottom of the Aegean Sea 8000 years ago minimum. Why? Because Robert Ballard found them while surveying the wrecks off of Gallipoli for National Geographic. Who were these people? Sedentary hunter gathers? Neolithic farmers? And if these structures exist in this one location surely there are more.
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@mrjones2721 The estimates I believe are based off of what is known about sea level rise at the end of the last Glacial Advance, current depth of water etc. One question that should be answered is if there has been significant geologic vertical movement in the area. Due the sunken warships the whole area is off limits to diving because of war graves issues. I think limited diving on the specific sites in the area should be allowed. Another issue may be unexploded ordinance. If there is any datable organic material is another matter.
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I'm not taking sides in this one way or another. But every time I hear the experts claim that we know how the Eqyptians preforned the work my first instinct is to say. OK, now reproduce it with the same results. With the same tools. Not just boring a shallow hole with a copper tube drill and sand. Not just cutting a shallow groove with a copper saw and sand. I'm not saying they had advanced technology. I do think that they were using techniques that we do not understand.
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@WorldofAntiquity Did I say anything about power tools. I do think that they were using techniques and tools that we haven't quite figured out yet. One thing I'm wondering is if they accidently stumbled on a bronze alloy sufficiently tough enough to be used to cut stone. Not all bronzes have tin as alloying element in the copper. In fact there is at least one bronze alloy* that can be used to cut steel. As to just what happened to the tools. I suspect that most if not all of them were resmelted and used for other purposes. As to the whole power tools or machinery thing that started with Flinders Petrei. As to reproducing the work found in the region with the tools known to have existed would go a long way towards shutting up the woo woo people. *Look into the history of a company named Ampco Metals. They specialize in copper alloys. Specifically aluminum bronzes. Founded in Milwaukee in the early 1900s the first product they brought to market was an copper alloy that could be used to machine steel and outperformed the high carbon steel cutting tools of the time.
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