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I wish I could remember where I saw it, but I remember seeing a story about a small village discovered off the coast of the Turkish side of the Black Sea under several hundred meters of water. Apparently fire pits, etc. were stil easily visible. The theory that was being advanced was that there was an ice dam between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea at the end of the last ice age. The ice retreated leaving the ice dam in place for several hundreds of years and people occupied the newly-vacated land. The ice dam crumbled at some point, releasing a huge torrent of water. I can imagine that would be a relatively common occurrence at the end of an ice age as lakes formed and ice dams released, especially in mountainous regions.
Since it's such a good story, I can also imagine everyone telling their neighbors about it.
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