Major Depopulation of Mammals Worldwide
In Alaska, millions of frozen animals and trees were found mingled together in what could only be attributed to a terrible catastrophe. Millions of animals, such as mammoth, mastodon, and bison were found torn 'limb from limb'. Trees were uprooted and thrown with animals in a haphazard fashion. Frank Hibben, a professor of archaeology, visited Alaska in 1941. He wrote: "In many places the Alaskan muck blanket is packed with animal bones and debris in trainload lots. Within this mass, frozen solid lie the twisted parts of animals and trees intermingled with lenses of ice and layers of peat and mosses. It looks as though in the middle of some catacystimic catastrophe, the whole Alaskan world of living animals and plants was suddenly frozen in mid-motion in grim charade." The estimated dating of the catastrophe is between 11000 and 9000 B.C.
Evidence of the worldwide destruction of mammals is found in the Siwalik Hills, foothills of the Himalayas, central Burma, Europe, Asia, and Siberia. The estimated remains of extinct animals along the rivers of northern Siberia are 10 million. N.K. Vereshchagin of the Zoology Institute in Leningrad estimates that the arctic coastal plain between Yana and Koyma alone contains at least half a million tons of mammoth tusks. The estimated date for the disappearance of the mammoth is between 11000 and 9000 B.C.
The islands of Leakhov, Stolbovoin, Belkov, and the New Siberean Island are packed with mammoth bones. Some skeletons and carcasses were found complete, but the majority was torn about by a gigantic force. Microscopic studies of the skin revealed red blood corpuscles, a sign of sudden death by suffocation. Also, the explorers of the New Siberian Island found some trees uprooted and others partly up-right and buried in the frozen soil. They believe a forest existed on the Island before it was suddenly devastated between 10000-9000 B.C.
Mythological Evidence
Middle East:
Egyptian Flood
Biblical Flood and Plagues
China
The Chinese annals say that in the time of Emperor Yahou, the sun did not go down for ten days. The world was in flames, and in their vast extent the waters over topped the great heights, threatening the heavens with their floods. The water of the ocean was heaped up and cast upon the continent of Asia; a great tidal wave swept over the mountains and broke in the middle of the Chinese Empire. The water was caught in the valleys between the mountains, and the land was flooded for decades.
India
Vedic Text (Vig-Reda) Describes Great Flood
Summary
I think that the combination of hard scientific evidence revealed by geologists and paleo scientists, combined with the plethora of mythical evidence about catastrophes provides good evidence of a cyclical catastrophe. I would love to find more information about ~5200 BCE to see what civilizations disappeared and what kind of hard geological and biological evidence exists.
I have more examples for the ~1600 BCE and ~9000 BCE events but I didn't want to beat a dead horse. I'm severely lacking in ~5200 BCE examples other than the fact that there isn't much evidence of any major city-state civilizations existing prior to the Sumerian civilization of Ubaid. Sumer Link
I welcome your thoughts.
