Prequel: Younger Dryas meteor impacts, The Flood & Atlantis

As we evolved, humanity lived through periodic climate swings from ice ages to warmer periods over 100,000 and 40,000 year cycles.  After the last ice age maxima, this pattern was disrupted by a series of events which caused very abrupt global warming and cooling.  These chaotic changes are known as the Dryas Periods and evidence is now emerging of the cause of the two most recent events – meteor impacts which decimated human societies at that time.  Many tribal memories, passed down over millennia, originally dismissed as myths and legends are now being reassessed, in parts, as oral history.  Details of the what, the when and the where of events immortalized as Noah’s Flood and the destruction of Atlantis are now beginning understood.  Second Edition published May 2024.

Summary

Two serious meteor impacts served as bookends for the climatic disruption referred to as the Younger Dryas, a period of around 1200 years. The discoveries are so recent that they lack generally accepted names – so I refer to them by their location:

  • The Hiawatha Impact, c10765BC – the progenitor of global flood myths, including Noah.
  • The Kefalonia Impacts, c9620BC – the progenitor of the Atlantis story, recorded by Solon.

Today, global average sea levels are rising by 3.4mm (0.13 inches) per annum – climate.nasa.gov. However, the meteor impact on the Hiawatha Glacier in north west Greenland caused sea levels to rise rapidly, maybe by 10 metres in a few years. Over the following 1200 years until the Kefalonia impacts, global sea levels rose by an average of 17.5mm per annum. The memory of rising sea levels, initially rising very rapidly as millions of cubic kilometres of ice were vaporised and the influx of fresh water disrupted sea currents, has come down to us in numerous legends – some 500 have been enumerated. The most famous being Noah and the story upon which Noah was based – the Sumerian hero, Utnapishtim.

Conventional historians view human societies 6,000 years ago as simple hunter gatherers – no farming had started, therefore there was no surplus food to support other activities and therefore no urban societies. However, as examined in this book, there is surprising evidence of sophisticated human knowledge and settlements dating from prior to these Impacts and indications of some scattered survivors. When this evidence is fully evaluated, history will require radical updating.

 

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