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Younger dryas period
The Younger Dryas marks a civilisation-erasing catastrophe, not merely a climate fluctuation. Converging evidence from impact proxies, archaeological erasure, and mythological memory points to an extraterrestrial trigger that mainstream climatology has systematically marginalised. The Lake Agassiz freshwater hypothesis cannot account for the full suite of physical evidence — including nanodiamonds, shocked quartz, iridium anomalies, and a continent-wide biomass burn layer.
Evidence
- Paul LaViolette's galactic superwave hypothesis offers an independent astrophysical framing — a cosmic ray pulse originating from the galactic core arriving at ~12,900 BP, capable of destabilising ice sheets and triggering atmospheric and oceanic cascades without requiring a single bolide impact.
- Brien Foerster's documentation of the megalithic construction surge immediately following the Younger Dryas — Göbekli Tepe, pre-Dynastic Egypt, and anomalous South American sites — fits the Hancock thesis that survivors of a destroyed maritime civilisation seeded post-catastrophe cultures globally.
- Kennett and colleagues published peer-reviewed work documenting this assemblage at over 50 sites globally.
- LaViolette argues ancient astronomical myths encode a warning about this recurring cycle.
- Sweatman's work corroborates Napier's cometary fragmentation model independently.