Post Glacial Eustatic Sea Level Rise

Was The Danube The Location Of The Noah's Ark Flood? asks a scientificblogging.com news item.

Was it the location of Noah's flood? 
Doubtful, but it was the location of a flood, just one of many from human prehistory.


Post Glacial Eustatic Sea Level Rise happened across the globe: as implied by the term 'eustatic'.  Eustatic sea level rise doesn't ask about  people's ethnic, religious or geopolitical divisions.  Nor does it inquire into whether humans are hunters, gatherers, farmers or manufacturers.  In cases of catastrophic sea encroachment, all corpses are equal.


Eustatic sea level rise has happened in the past and will certainly happen in the future.  Throughout human history, most of the human population has lived near the sea or tidal rivers.  Small wonder, then, that every culture has its own flood myths.  The common thread of many of these myths is the time-frame: about 6 to 10 thousand years ago, a period during which eustatic sea level rose by about 60 meters, with  some surges, having already risen sharply due to a massive meltwater pulse.

Atlit-yam is the undersea site of the world's oldest known well.  The deluge myth time-frame would be about the time that Atlit-Yam was inundated.  There is controversy over whether the inundation was sudden on the human or on the geological time scale.  But the fact that it is under the sea now, and wasn't when it was built, is beyond rational dispute.

So, was Atlit-Yam the site of Noah's flood? 
Doubtful, but it was the location of a flood, just one of many from human prehistory.
(Give me a break!)

References/further reading:
http://www.antiquities.org.il  Neolithic Site Atlit-Yam.
http://www.cataniacultura.com/ Atlit-Yam tsunami or sea rise?