Ice Age Ended Suddenly in 9703BC

If it is accurate and beyond dispute, we finally have a date we can use. A definitive moment in time in which a global cataclysm may have occurred. And an interesting puzzle for scientists that believe everything happens gradually.

A Danish ice drilling project has conclusively ended the discussion on the exact date of the end of the last ice age.

The extensive scientific study shows that it was precisely 11,711 years ago - and not the indeterminate figure of ‘some’ 11,000 years ago – that the ice withdrew, allowing humans and animals free reign.

“Our new, extremely detailed data from the examination of the ice cores shows that in the transition from the ice age to our current warm, interglacial period the climate shift is so sudden that it is as if a button was pressed”, explains ice core researcher Jørgen Peder Steffensen, Centre for Ice and Climate at NBI at the University of Copenhagen.

As long as this research is not disputed, I shall be using the year 9703 BC as the date for that cataclysm / crustal shift. This fits in very well with Plato's date for the destruction of Atlantis. He said it happened 9000 years before Solon (638 BC–558 BC), which is approximately 9600BC. While it is possible Plato meant precisely 9000 years, it is more likely he meant roughly.

Allan & Delair's wonderful book Cataclysm! uses the date of 9500BC.

Ice cores have shown that glaciers began to form on Mount Kilimanjaro in 9700BC.

A quick search of Google shows evidence of a cataclysm on that date (even though the authors didn't know it...)

Earliest Buffalo Jump
Collection of pygmy hippopotamus bones

9703BC is the new year zero. There was a pole shift. And for some reason, those humans that survived were suddenly much more civilised...