The data disproved the existence of a Late Bronze Age marine channel, confirming Paliki was always a peninsula.
This prompted Diggle to re-examine Homer's wording. Underhill clarified that the Greek geographer Strabo described an overland watercourse, not an active sea channel.
"Where the island is narrowest it forms a low isthmus, so that it is often submerged from sea to sea," Strabo wrote, according to a translation by H.L.
Jones.
The researchers state that the corrected geographic model aligns ancient texts, geological records, and regional topography.
Recent excavations of Early Bronze Age sites at Livadi Marsh by local authorities have further verified Paliki's historical prominence.
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"We are confident that an elegant explanation has emerged that unifies the geoscience, the Homeric texts and Strabo and is entirely consistent with Robert Bittlestone's founding idea of Odysseus Unbound – that Paliki is the location of Homer's Ithaca," say Professors Diggle and Underhill.
