True descendants of the Thracians

**Gemenii XIII** · 08-14-2005, 20:28

[QUOTE=Kraxis]One small correction:

The Black Sea was as a lake about 2/3rds of the current Black Sea. Remember that quite a few very large rivers run into the area and would thus have formed a very large lake.
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I also heard about this but thats just a geological theory. Another theory states that the black sea and the caspian sea were once one big sea. Yet, they seperated because this sea was resting on two tectonic plates. In which case the black sea couldn't have been a lake because the caspian sea is a sea not a lake.

**Kraxis** · 08-15-2005, 13:47

Since they are pretty far apart you are going more than a mere 8000 years back in time. You are speaking of perhaps millions of years. That is quite far outside our timeframe of discussion.
I'm not going to argue that they were not connected, I simply don't know, but not this close as the Indo-Europeans certainly did go down through the Caucasus, which would have been impossible if there had been a sea blocking their way.

**Gemenii XIII** · 08-15-2005, 21:23

Originally Posted by Kraxis

Since they are pretty far apart you are going more than a mere 8000 years back in time. You are speaking of perhaps millions of years. That is quite far outside our timeframe of discussion.
I'm not going to argue that they were not connected, I simply don't know, but not this close as the Indo-Europeans certainly did go down through the Caucasus, which would have been impossible if there had been a sea blocking their way.

No no. I was talking about millions of years back ofcourse. The theory you were speaking of states that the black sea was once a fresh water lake but if that caspian sea and the black sea were once one sea millions of years ago, than it wouldn't make any sense for the black sea (lake) 8000 years ago to have fresh water since the caspian has salt water. :)

**Kraxis** · 08-15-2005, 21:42

It is not exclusive...
It could have been fresh or salt, but the size of the thing leads towards a salt lake. The number of large rivers (the Black Sea is simply ringed by massive numbers of them) would bring enough sediment with them to salt up the lake. How salt is impossible to know.