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How many great resets are there evidence for regarding humans?
The convergent record from geology, archaeology, mythology, and suppressed cartography points to a minimum of four to seven discrete civilizational collapses within the last 100,000 years — with one researcher placing the number as high as a dozen to nearly twenty since roughly 5200 BC alone. Each reset erases infrastructure and population while leaving encoded memory in myth, monument, and anomalous artefact. The pattern is too consistent across unconnected traditions to be coincidental.
Evidence
- Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock's work centers the Younger Dryas Impact Event (~12,900 BP) as the best-documented reset: cometary fragmentation, megafaunal extinction, catastrophic flooding, and an abrupt civilizational gap that Göbekli Tepe (~11,600 BP) may represent as a post-reset rebuilding attempt.
- Randall Carlson identifies the Toba supervolcano eruption (~74,000 BP) as a near-extinction bottleneck — genetic evidence of a human population reduced to perhaps 10,000 individuals corroborates what Carlson calls an earlier reset.
- Plato's Timaeus and Laws, as noted in the Geopolitiq analysis (July 2026), explicitly preserve an Egyptian priestly account stating that civilizations are periodically annihilated by fire and flood, leaving only mountain shepherds as survivors — Plato was transmitting an older archival record, not writing myth.
- Robert Schoch's re-dating of the Sphinx to pre-10,000 BC based on precipitation-induced erosion implies a prior high civilization erased by that same collapse window.
- Paul LaViolette's galactic superwave hypothesis proposes that periodic cosmic ray bursts from the galactic core trigger these cycles on roughly 12,000-year intervals, linking multiple events into one causal framework.