re: Ancient Stone Carvings-Comet(s) Hitting Earth app.10,950 BC (p14, Shermer concedes...)

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Research suggests toward end of Ice Age, humans witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killer, thanks to a cosmic impact

February 1, 2018, University of Kansas

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On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated.

Out of nowhere, the sky was lit with fireballs. This was followed by shock waves.
Fires rushed across the landscape, and dust clogged the sky, cutting off the sunlight. As the climate rapidly cooled, plants died, food sources were snuffed out, and the glaciers advanced again. Ocean currents shifted, setting the climate into a colder, almost "ice age" state that lasted an additional thousand years.

Finally, the climate began to warm again, and people again emerged into a world with fewer large animals and a human culture in North America that left behind completely different kinds of spear points.

This is the story supported by a massive study of geochemical and isotopic markers just published in the Journal of Geology.

The results are so massive that the study had to be split into two papers.

"Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Cosmic Impact ~12,800 Years Ago" is divided into "Part I: Ice Cores and Glaciers" and "Part 2: Lake, Marine, and Terrestrial Sediments."
The paper's 24 authors include KU Emeritus Professor of Physics & Astronomy Adrian Melott and Professor Brian Thomas, a 2005 doctoral graduate from KU, now at Washburn University.

"The work includes measurements made at more than 170 different sites across the world," Melott said.


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"The hypothesis is that a large comet fragmented and the chunks impacted the Earth, causing this disaster," said Melott. "A number of different chemical signatures—carbon dioxide, nitrate, ammonia and others—all seem to indicate that an astonishing 10 percent of the Earth's land surface, or about 10 million square kilometers, was consumed by fires."

According to Melott, analysis of pollen suggests pine forests were probably burned off to be replaced by poplar, which is a species that colonizes cleared areas.
Indeed, the authors posit the cosmic impact could have touched off the Younger Dryas cool episode, biomass burning, late Pleistocene extinctions of larger species and "human cultural shifts and population declines."

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Graham Hancock
@Graham__Hancock

The same comet, cause of the Younger Dryas impact and the obliteration, 12,800 years ago, of a lost high civilization of prehistoric antiquity, that I write about extensively in Magicians of the Gods (LINK ):LINK …

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The symbols had long puzzled scientists, but Sweatman and his team of engineers discovered that they actually corresponded to astronomical constellations, and showed a swarm of comet fragments hitting the Earth.

An image of a headless man on the stone is also thought to symbolise human disaster and extensive loss of life following the impact.

The carvings show signs of being cared for by the people of Gobekli Tepe for millennia, which indicates that the event they describe might have had long-lasting impacts on civilisation.

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To try to figure out whether that comet strike actually happened or not, the researchers used computer models to match the patterns of the stars detailed on the Vulture Stone to a specific date - and they found evidence that the event in question would have occurred about 10,950 BCE, give or take 250 years.


The dating of these carvings also matches an ice core taken from Greenland, which pinpoints the Younger Dryas period as beginning around 10,890 BCE

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consistent with the theory that mankind was in the ancient ancient past extremely advanced before natural calamities sent us back to the Stone Age

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Never heard that theory before --> Ancient Aliens stuff???

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Edward Leedskalnin (modern Latvian: Edvards Liedskalninš) (January 12, 1887 – December 7, 1951) was a Latvian emigrant to the United States, self-taught engineer and amateur sculptor who single-handedly built the Coral Castle in Florida, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[2] Leedskalnin was also known for developing theories of magnetism.

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Over the next 20 years, Leedskalnin constructed a massive structure that he called "Rock Gate" and dedicated, in his own words, to the girl who had left him years before. Working alone and mostly at night, Leedskalnin eventually quarried and sculpted over 1,100 short tons (997,903 kg) of oolite limestone into architectural and engineering landmark that would later be known as the Coral Castle.[6] He used various basic tools available under his modest means including salvaged timber and old automobile parts. First, he built a house out of limestone blocks and wood, then he gradually constructed a stone structure for which he is now famous.[5] Despite his reserved personality, he eventually opened the Coral Castle to the public, offering tours for 10 cents.[3]

When people were asking Leedskalnin how he had moved all of the heavy stone by himself, he usually replied, "I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the secrets of the people who built the pyramids", referring to the pyramids at Giza, Egypt.[7] Some local residents later remembered that as school children they had field trips to the construction site of the future Coral Castle, and Leedskalnin personally explained manual methods of his work.[3]

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Unpossible, the Earth is only 10k years old

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When people were asking Leedskalnin how he had moved all of the heavy stone by himself, he usually replied, "I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the secrets of the people who built the pyramids"

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February 17, 2018 at 12:11 am

Burn Paper via The Cosmic Tusk

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The Tusk inaugurates our new look here by posting the most important paper in the peer-reviewed canon of the Comet Research Group since the original PNAS publication in 2007. It is truly a new day at the Tusk.

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The two journal articles combine detailed forensic information from Glaciers and Ice Cores (Part 1); and Lake, Marine and Terrestrial Sediments (Part 2); to prove a cosmically induced planetary inferno, ~12,821 years ago. You are welcome to refer to this work as the “Burn Paper,” we did for years.

The Burn Paper will humble the critics who have shunned the uncertainties of science rather than celebrating and nurturing them. Dr. Jaqueline Gill comes to mind. Starting in 2009 this highly political young PhD in the Geosciences (with 42,000 tweets on all manner of issues) attacked the idea of evidence in lake sediments for North American continental wildfires. She made fun of the science and even belittled the peer-review process.

After reading the Burn Paper perhaps Ms. Gill can find a location on Planet Earth where there is no evidence in lake sediment of intense fire at ~12,900

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There is no escaping the evidence. But let’s not dwell on small fry like Dr. Gill. True vindication begins when we turn to big fish critics like Dr. Mark Boslough of the Sandia National Laboratory; AKA, “The Bos.” The Bos has been quiet lately. But the Tusk will never forget. He set back his own important fields – impact analysis and risk assessment – by an order of magnitude. He conspired to silence and undermine our peer-reviewed publications and public communications; and, ironically, put the world’s population at greater risk, by distracting public attention from the truly acute planetary threat by pimping a lesser one that he could blame on Republicans.

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the Tusk is going to revel in the private squeals of the poli-scientists who have tormented the Comet Research Group for more than a decade with accusations of foolishness and fraud, only to reveal themselves finally as fraudulent fools.

A great intellectual cleansing is underway. Tired old ideas, such as the notion that the heavens are simply our pleasant backdrop, rather than our regular antagonist, are being swept away. This paper is a woke moment. There will soon be others. The heavens have burned and they very nearly buried us. We are here to find out because it happened.

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Randall proposes cataclysmic cosmic impacts as the source of radical changes to the earth and part of cyclical process that is downplayed by mainstream science

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