Template:Did you know nominations/Garth tsunami
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:48, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
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Garth tsunami
- ... that mass burials in the Orkney and Shetland Islands might host fatalities of a tsunami 5500 years ago? "In the Northern Hemisphere, we investigate palaeotsunami inundation as an alternative hypothesis for mass burial sites in Orkney and Shetland, a relatively tectonically inactive region where such an association is unlikely to have ever been considered. The nature, chronology and location of these mass burial sites fit well with the proposed archaeological evidence for palaeotsunami inundation, and they also appear to be contemporaneous with the as-yet poorly documented Garth tsunami"
- ALT1 ... that mass burials in the Orkney and Shetland Islands might contain bodies from a tsunami 5500 years ago?
- Reviewed: Arthur V. Sellwood
Created by Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk). Self-nominated at 15:50, 18 February 2020 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. I have added ALT1 because "host" does not seem quite the right word. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:20, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I came by to promote this but do not see the 5,000 bodies figure in the source. The source seems to be saying these cairns were built 5,000-5,500 years ago, but I don't see a figure for victims. Yoninah (talk) 21:25, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: Um ... neither the hook nor the article claim that there are 5,000 bodies? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 21:33, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
