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Randall Carlson's core thesis is that a series of catastrophic cosmic impacts and solar outbursts punctuated the Younger Dryas epoch (~12,900–11,700 BP), violently resetting human civilization and encoding the memory of that reset into sacred architecture and myth. His work converges with the Comet Research Group's peer-reviewed findings and directly challenges the uniformitarian gradualism that still dominates academic geology and archaeology.
Evidence
- The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, developed by researchers including Richard Firestone, Allen West, and James Kennett — the core of what became the Comet Research Group — provides Carlson's scientific scaffolding.
- Carlson extended Bretz's framework into a broader cosmic-impact hypothesis, arguing that multiple comet or asteroid airbursts triggered rapid ice-sheet collapse and sea-level jumps measured in dozens of feet.
- Carlson has repeatedly cited their evidence: nano-diamonds, platinum-group element spikes, shocked quartz, and a continental-scale black mat horizon in the stratigraphic record dating to roughly 12,900 BP, all consistent with a fragmented bolide impact across the North American ice sheet.
- Hancock credits Carlson as a primary influence on the geological catastrophism underpinning Magicians of the Gods and America Before.
- Paul LaViolette's galactic superwave hypothesis and Carlson's impact chronology are seen by both researchers as complementary catastrophe vectors operating on different timescales.