At https://phys.org/news/2026-09-prehistoric-coastal-northern-adriatic.html … without mentioning sea level rise in other parts of the world at the same time, or sea level decline if that is appropriate, the new study focuses solely on the northern Adriatic – in isolation. As far as the press release goes. There were dramatic sea level rise in the region that changed the coastline of Italy, Slovenia and northern Croatia, we are told. Reshaping coastal features – drowning low lying areas of land, including coastal marsh. One immediately thinks of Doggerland, the southern basin of the North Sea. It may also have been relevant to the northern basin of the North Sea, as we shall see. It occurred in a series of steps – just as it did in the drowning of the continental shelves of NW Europe and NE North America. It was, in other words, contrary to the idea of a constant sea level curve as favoured by mainstream. The time period given is between 9000 and 4000BC – the early to mid Holocene.
We are told there was a series of ‘staggered’ rises in sea level that swallowed coastal areas. For instance, what is now the Venice lagoon was formerly dry and positioned well away from the sea. Some kilometres away. See https://doi.org/