About 12800 years ago, the earth was struck by or entered the tail of a comet. The impact caused global winter and massive changes in sea level and topography. For all intents, it wiped out most of the advances of pre-Adamic human civilization.
There is a very interesting television show, “Ancient Apocalypse”. It is considered controversial because it often disputes existing assumptions about when human civilizations arose on the planet as well as the sophistication of those various civilizations.
I found the show interesting because I am used to the jarring impact of paradigm shifts. Einstein was not only challenged but ridiculed for his theories of relativity. Swiss watchmakers were suddenly confronted with the impact of an inexpensive Japanese watch that actually kept better time. Going back to WW2, the rise of carrier aviation was at the expense of the battleship.
“Ancient Apocalypse” would have you believe that human civilization predated current estimates by thousands of years and maybe more. In some cases, the refutation of the existing paradigm is supported by recently discovered facts. In another case by informed opinion. Here is my favorite example of new paradigm thinking:
Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is estimated to be about 12000 years old. Because of its sophistication, it appears to be the first example of an organized human society. What is intriguing is not only its size but that it was carefully backfilled to preserve it in the much the way you would preserve a time capsule. Was it intended to be a warning with ties to the comet apocalypse? – glyphs on specially designed columns appear to point to the region of the night sky where the danger came from and will come again. Even more significant, why was it abandoned at all?
“Ancient Apocalypse” clearly challenges current paradigms associated with human civilization. This new alternative paradigm proposed by Graham Hancock is that advanced ice age civilizations were almost all destroyed, but a few survivors were able to pass on some knowledge to their successors who built future civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica.
