Posted by Alastair Vaan on October 13, 1998 at 02:40:38:
In Reply to: Mineral Samples posted by NICK on October 11, 1998 at 20:47:49:
: I would like to start off by saying these pictures are very interesting. I am not familar with acrhelogical techniques but is it possible to drill not into the structures but at the bases to determine if soil/rock/mineral composition ever supported land based vegetation? If this was possible I'm sure you already thought of it but it would provide support in favor of the possiblity of this site being man made. I hope you guys have stumbled onto somthing!
Unfortunately that wouldn't prove a thing. The land surrounding the monument can already be said to have been exposed through standard palaeoclimatology. We already know that the sea levels were much reduced during the Last Glacial Maximum (~pre. 10kyr BP).
It would be nice for them to have stumbled upon something, but the numerous critiscms of the teams methods has not been answered well.