EXTRACT
Hancock says that this sudden decline in temperatures, was a direct result of an impact of a comet in North American ice caps that first led to floods followed by tidal waves and ultimately a vast cloud of dust into the upper atmosphere that enshrouded the entire earth for more than a thousand years, preventing the sun’s rays from reaching the surface, and setting off the Younger Dryas deep freeze.
Phi Beta Iota: Alternative explanations for the long period of darkness have centered on volcanic activity. There are a sufficient number of depictions in ancient texts and wall drawings of “aliens” and other forms of advanced civilization, to persuade us that there is something here. Humanity got hit hard.
See Also:
Review: Catastrophe–An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization