A team of scientists from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has begun the careful micropalaeontological core analysis that will give us the all-important dates for when sea levels rose to fill the channel between Paliki and the rest of Kefalonia.
And if, in a few months time, they can say it happened before the time of Odysseus, the Late Bronze Age in the 12th century BC, then the Odysseus Unbound theory will receive an enormous boost!
They are looking for microscopic marine fossils that give a date because the species found vary over time and also, if there are any, carbon-based samples such as fragments of wood that can be radio carbon dated.