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Was ther an advanced civilization before the younger dryas?
The convergence of geological, archaeoastronomical, and mythological evidence assembled by independent researchers makes a strong cumulative case for a technologically sophisticated pre-Younger Dryas culture. The absence of surface ruins is explicable: sea levels rose roughly 120 metres after the last glacial maximum, submerging the coastal zones where such a civilisation would have concentrated. The impact-event framework and the lost-civilisation claim are distinct propositions — but they reinforce each other when read together.
Evidence
- Randall Carlson's geological fieldwork documents catastrophic flood scarring across the American Northwest — the Channeled Scablands — consistent with the sequential drainage of glacial Lake Missoula during the Younger Dryas onset near 12,900 years ago.
- Brien Foerster's morphometric and DNA work on elongated skulls from Paracas, Peru, and Michael Cremo's documentation in 'Forbidden Archeology' of anomalous artefacts in deep strata both point to human presence and capability predating the accepted timeline by millennia.
- Critics, including a 13-author review in 2023, continue to dispute the impact trigger, and a November 2025 correction to the Abu Hureyra meltglass paper has been cited as weakening the cosmic-event case — though the correction addressed methodology, not retraction of the core finding.
- Robert Schoch's weathering analysis of the Sphinx enclosure, peer-reviewed and presented to the Geological Society of America, pushes the monument's construction back to at least 7,000–9,000 BCE based on rainfall erosion patterns inconsistent with the historical dynastic timeline.
- Carlson correlates these megaflood signatures with Plato's Atlantis chronology and with the Comet Research Group's platinum, iridium, and nanodiamond proxies published in peer-reviewed literature since 2007.