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AT-1744

Pelagic Fishing at 42,000 Years Before the Present and the Maritime Skills of Modern Humans

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AT-1744

Ice Age Civilization Theory

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Direct archaeological evidence for sophisticated Late Pleistocene maritime capability; supports complex people, not an urban global civilization.

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AT-1751

Ancient Coastal Civilization Theory

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Direct Late Pleistocene evidence for maritime expertise in Island Southeast Asia; demonstrates capability without implying a global civilization.

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Ice Age Civilization Theory

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Ancient Coastal Civilization Theory

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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.

Ice Age Civilization Theory contains a useful challenge and an unsupported leap. The useful challenge is that Ice Age humans were more complex than old stereotypes allowed, and many coastal sites may be submerged. The unsupported leap is the claim of a lost global advanced civilization without direct material evidence.
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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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Submerged coastlines and evidence of Paleolithic maritime or artistic complexity do not by themselves demonstrate a single global civilization.

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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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.

Ancient Coastal Civilization Theory is strongest as a research-warning: archaeology is biased toward surviving land, and many ancient coasts are underwater. The theory becomes weak when it treats missing evidence as proof of a lost global civilization.
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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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