The Oldest Underwater Town Ever Found
A recent discovery of 5,000-year-old pottery shards have scientists thinking again of when a sunken coastal town, called Pavlopetri, was really inhabited. Before this discovery scievtists believed that this town was inhabited about 3,000 years ago but this recent discovery has them questioning this belief. 9,000 square meters of buildings, streets, graves and a large ceremonial building have scientists thinking that this city was also an important trading port. And since the new discovery of the pottery shards proves that the town is older than previously believed we can learn about the culture of neolithic peoples. And because this town is underwater things like food and wood may have been preserved better than towns on land from the same time period that are still on land.
Article:Underwater Town Breaks Antiquity Record
Author:Linda Geddes
Posted:October 29, 2009
What do you think about the discovery of the true age of this town?
Do you think that the town should be excavated and studied? Or do you think that it should be left alone? Why?
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I think that they should defiantely excavate it. I believe this because our scientists could learn a lot more about the Neolithic age if this is done. What’s the use of letting it just sit there for who knows how long, when we could discover maybe something huge? They definatley should excavate it.
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How cool. Sounds like Atlantis to me! I think this town should definitely be excavated and studied. This can help answer so many questions about ancient people and how they lived. Also, discovering a new civilization can help us answer questions about other civilizations as far as trading and war go.
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I think that it should excavated and studied so that we can learn about the people that lived there. The more we learn about them the better we know about or past. I also think that it should be left alone so that is preserves it for future generations.
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I also believe this city should be excavated. We never know what we could find there unless we do. For all we know this could be atlantis, or it could have some written information telling us more about the past. Either way it would be benifitial for us to dig it up and see what we find. Its kind of like a thunder egg. You never know what your going to find
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I don’t believe the city should be excavated. Because it was underwater bacteria that we havn’t seen in thousands of years could be lurking in some godforsaken cupboard. This could lead to a global outbreak much like the Black Plague.
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Interesting if you ask me. I think that they should excavate it to learn more about how these ancient people lived.
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2tatyanaf Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
I think they should just leave it alone because even though it’d be cool to look at it from outside of the water, by excavating it, can ruin it and maybe the people there wanted it to last forever so they’d be crushing their dreams by excavating it.
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This sounds awesome, but we should leave it alone. Sure, I’d love to know what happens…. but the people who built this city didn’t think that in the future it would be a matter of archeology and science.
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