Bosporus and Dardanelles (IMAGE)

University of Kansas

Bosporus and Dardanelles

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The sea level in the Bosporus and Dardanelles at the Last Glacial Maximum (20,000 years ago) versus today. Note that 20,000 years ago one-third of the route from the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea was occupied by a deep lake, which would have interrupted the portage and might have encouraged human settlement at each of its ends.

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Dobson, et al.

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