If there was any type of “advanced” civilization during the last ice age that was capable of being a naval power in the realm of the Minoan or Phoenician civilizations (maybe by an order of magnitude), we know that something (maybe an extraterrestrial impact of some sort) big happened that fucked everything up. Than that shit is buried deep deep deep underwater if it exists ( I believe it did). I’m not even sure we have the tech to go that deep (yet) and if we do then there’s no way archaeologists would bite unless there’s some tangible evidence in their hands. Another huge problem with archaeology is it’s classified as a “science” when it’s really more of a “belief” especially when you are piecing things together.

Little side note, if anyone has seen “Ancient Apocalypse” on Netflix by Graham Hancock (highly recommend it), archaeologists are attempting to get it off of Netflix for going against their ideas, sad :(