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The upper dryus
The Younger Dryas was not merely a climate blip — it marks the violent end of an advanced Pleistocene world. The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, championed by Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock, and the Comet Research Group (Allen West, James Kennett, et al.), identifies a cosmic bombardment as the trigger. This window — 12,900 to 11,700 BP — correlates precisely with the disappearance of megafauna, collapse of the Clovis culture, and the foundational dates of anomalous stone monuments worldwide.
Evidence
- Randall Carlson has spent decades mapping catastrophic flood geology across North America, arguing the Channeled Scablands, giant ripple marks in Montana, and erratic boulders are signatures of repeated cataclysmic meltwater releases — not gradual glacial retreat.
- Graham Hancock's 'Magicians of the Gods' synthesises the Comet Research Group's platinum-group element spikes, nano-diamonds, shocked quartz, and magnetic spherules found in a consistent sediment layer across four continents — a bombardment fingerprint.
- Paul LaViolette's Galactic Superwave hypothesis extends the frame further, linking the Younger Dryas onset to a cosmic ray pulse from the galactic core that destabilised the solar environment and triggered the impact swarm.
- He dates the most violent pulse to the Younger Dryas onset, ~12,900 BP.
- Göbekli Tepe's construction, beginning ~11,600 BP, falls at the Younger Dryas termination; Hancock argues it was built by survivors of exactly this catastrophe.