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What does Robert Schoch say ended the last Ice Age?
Robert Schoch argues the last Ice Age ended not gradually but catastrophically, triggered by an enormous solar outburst circa 9700 BCE that plasma-blasted Earth's surface, incinerated civilizations, and plunged humanity into a six-millennium Solar-Induced Dark Age. This reframes not just climate history but human history: what we call the 'dawn of civilization' is, in Schoch's model, merely a reemergence from the ashes of something far older and more sophisticated.
Evidence
- In a 2026 podcast appearance, Schoch stated directly: 'What everyone used to think, or a lot of people still think, was the beginning of civilization — it's not.
- Schoch's thesis intersects with Randall Carlson's and Graham Hancock's catastrophism work, and independently with Paul LaViolette's galactic superwave hypothesis, which also posits solar and cosmic plasma events as Ice Age termination triggers.
- Drawing on ice cores, sediment cores, and plasma discharge analysis, Schoch argues that a supercharged solar event effectively 'reset' Earth's surface, vitrifying rock, triggering megafloods, and collapsing advanced pre-Ice Age civilizations globally.
- He dubs the ensuing period the Solar-Induced Dark Age (SIDA) — roughly 9700 BCE to 3500 BCE — during which survivors 'eked out a living for thousands of years' before civilization visibly reemerged in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
- He notes that the ancient Egyptians themselves claimed their civilization was a legacy inherited from thousands of years prior.