Flint Dibble on archaeology: what the evidence says · JRE #2136
SUBJECT: ARCHAEOLOGY
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And so the thing is at this point, we have something like three million shipwrecks from around the world. And so one of my questions for Graham is, if this is a global civilization with ships, why is it that we don't have shipwrecks from this global civilization?
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The figure of roughly three million shipwrecks is a widely cited estimate for wrecks spread across the ocean floors, rivers, and lake beds worldwide, closely associated with UNESCO's underwater cultural heritage work. UN News, reporting on UNESCO's 2001 Convention, states that over 3 million undiscovered shipwrecks are estimated to be spread across the ocean floors. NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science likewise cites an estimated three million shipwrecks scattered across the ocean floor, rivers, and lake beds. The number is an approximation rather than a precise catalogue, but Dibble's use of it as an order-of-magnitude figure is accurate, and his rhetorical point that no wrecks have been attributed to a hypothesized Ice Age global civilization is consistent with the archaeological record.