AT-0103

Lambeck, Kurt, et al. (2014). “Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene.” _PNAS_ 111(43): 15296–15303. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1411762111. Role: global sea-level/ice-volume reconstruction and GIA context.

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AT-0103, AT-1694, AT-1731, AT-1742, AT-1749
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  • Sea Level and Global Ice Volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene
  • Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

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AT-0103

Last Glacial Maximum

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

global sea-level/ice-volume reconstruction and GIA context.

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AT-1694

Post-Flood Re-Civilization

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Geological chronology for postglacial sea-level change; constrains attempts to turn regional inundation into one recent global flood.

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AT-1731

Kumari Kandam

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Lambeck and colleagues' 2014 PNAS reconstruction of postglacial sea-level change; supports drowned coastal landscapes in general but neither a continent-scale Kumari Kandam nor cultural continuity without archaeology.

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AT-1742

Ice Age Civilization Theory

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Authoritative chronology for postglacial sea-level rise and the continued early-Holocene inundation of continental shelves.

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AT-1749

Ancient Coastal Civilization Theory

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Authoritative global chronology for postglacial sea-level rise; establishes inundation, not the social character of drowned sites.

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Last Glacial Maximum

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Post-Flood Re-Civilization

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Ice Age Civilization Theory

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Ancient Coastal Civilization Theory

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Supporting citation for public claim

During the Last Glacial Maximum, global land-ice volume was near its last-glacial-cycle maximum and global mean sea level was far below present.

Global land-ice volume was near its last-cycle maximum and mean sea level was far below present.
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The listed archaeology and geology support multiple regional Mesopotamian floods and long postglacial change, not one synchronous global restart.

Post-flood re-civilization is one of the strongest story patterns in the flood-myth cluster. It deserves its own page because it connects flood survivors, antediluvian worlds, kingship, culture heroes, reset theories, and early civilization origins.
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Postglacial sea-level rise makes drowned coastal landscapes physically plausible, but the catalog contains no South Indian or Sri Lankan archaeological site record tying one to Kumari Kandam.

Answer / theory: Yes, coastal archaeology is plausible and worth investigating. Evidence level: Plausible but Unproven.
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Supporting citation for public claim

Postglacial sea-level rise submerged continental-shelf landscapes, creating a genuine preservation and sampling problem for coastal archaeology.

Answer / theory: Yes, some sites may be submerged. That possibility does not prove a global civilization. Evidence level: Plausible but Unproven.
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Postglacial sea-level rise and continental-shelf preservation bias make missing or submerged prehistoric coastal sites a documented research problem.

Answer / theory: Yes. This is plausible and well supported as a research gap. Evidence level: Strong Evidence.
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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

The catalog distinguishes a textual flood-reset motif from a historical claim of worldwide re-civilization; only the former is directly attested here.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

Fingerprints of the Gods documents a modern worldwide-reset claim, but the listed archaeology, agriculture, geology, and plate-tectonic sources do not support it.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

The Sumerian King List attests a Mesopotamian scribal framing of kingship around a flood boundary; it does not prove a worldwide historical reset.

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Regional flood memory is plausible in Mesopotamia, but the listed evidence does not identify one deposit as the source of all flood traditions.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

Fingerprints of the Gods documents a modern lost-precursor and survivor-transmission model; it is claim provenance, not archaeological evidence.

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A worldwide post-flood survivor group that reintroduced civilization is documented as a modern alternative-history claim but is unsupported by the listed archaeology, geology, and agricultural history.

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Tamil literary/commentarial and modern cultural histories document Kumari Kandam as a layered lost-land tradition, but the catalog does not establish a continent-sized ancient Tamil civilization.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

The catalog contains no archaeological source proving Kumari Kandam as a continent-sized civilization; its geological sources concern Precambrian crust and postglacial sea level instead.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

The global advanced Ice Age civilization tracked in AT-1747 is not established by the catalog's evidence for postglacial inundation, Paleolithic maritime skill, art, or early Neolithic monumentality.

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Limiting / critical citation for public claim

Submerged coastlines and evidence of Paleolithic maritime or artistic complexity do not by themselves demonstrate a single global civilization.

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The drowned global-civilization and transmission model tracked in AT-1754 is not established by the catalog's sea-level, continental-shelf, maritime, coastal-migration, or Gulf-basin evidence.

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Lambeck, Kurt, et al. (2014). “Sea level and global ice volumes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene.” _PNAS_ 111(43): 15296–15303. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1411762111. Role: global sea-level/ice-volume reconstruction and GIA context.

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