[meteorite-list] Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis Supported by Graham Hancock

[Paul H.]

Graham Hancock, a well known alternative "prehistorian" and 
best-selling popular book author has apparently Become a supporter 
of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. In his upcoming book, which 
is currently described as a revision of his 1995 book, "Fingerprints of 
the Gods,” Mr. Hancock will apparently argue for Younger Dryas 
Impact having created a "titanic global cataclysm" that destroyed a 
lost civilization that he believes existed during the Late Pleistocene. 
According to published accounts, he will apparently use Gobekli Tepi 
as evidence of the existence of this lost Ice Age civilization. 

"Graham Hancock Working on 'Fingerprints of the Gods Part 2'" at 
http://dailygrail.com/Hidden-History/2013/2/Graham-Hancock-Working-Fingerprints-the-Gods-Part-2
stated:

".... the first piece of evidence that made me realise there 
was a new story to be told was proof that north America 
was struck by several pieces of a giant fragmenting comet 
12,900 years ago (i.e. 10,900 BC), causing an extinction-level 
event all around the planet, radically changing global 
climate and initiating the sudden and hitherto unexplained 
thousand-year deep-freeze right at the end of the Ice Age 
that geologists call the Younger Dryas." 

and

"…supports the thesis of a great civilisation, lost to history 
between 13,000 and 12,000 years ago, that I controversially 
put before the public in 1995 with Fingerprints of the Gods."

His Facebook page about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis is
https://www.facebook.com/Author.GrahamHancock/posts/10151506710212354

Initially, in Fingerprints of the Gods, Mr. Hancock argued that his lost 
Ice Age civilization was destroyed by Earth Crustal Displacement. 
In "Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age", he abandoned Earth 
Crustal Displacement and argued that his lost Ice Age civilization was 
destroyed by rapid global sea level rise that started at the end of the 
last Ice Age and continued into Early Holocene. Now it appears that 
his terminal Pleistocene cataclysm has shifted again from terminal 
Pleistocene – Early Holocene global sea level rise to the hypothesized 
Younger Dryas impact.

Reviews of Fingerprints of the Gods are:

1. Malek, J., 1996, Fingerprints of the Gods: A Review. Discussions in 
Egyptology. vol. 24, pp. 135 – 142.
http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=27

2. The Gentle Art of Myth Management by Duncan Edlin, Papers, Hall of Ma’at,
http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=28

Additional articles about “Fingerprints of the Gods” and Earth Crustal
Displacement can be found in the “Papers” section of the  Hall of Ma’at,
http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Topics

They include:

Brass, M., 2002, Tracing Graham Hancock's Shifting Cataclysm. Skeptical 
Inquirer. vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 45-49. 
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/tracing_graham_hancockrsquos_shifting_cataclysm/
http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=48

Reviews of "Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age" and associated
video are:

1. Book Review of Underworld by Graham Hancock by Duncan Edlin
Papers, Hall of Ma’at,
http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=47

2. Review of Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age by Nic Flemming
Papers, Hall of Ma’at,
http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=36

Some other books of Graham Hancock’s other books include “Keeper 
Of Genesis,” “Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith,” “The Sign and The 
Seal,” “Heaven's Mirror,” and “Supernatural: Meetings with The Ancient 
Teachers of Mankind.”

A review of “Supernatural: Meetings with The Ancient  Teachers of Mankind” 
is: The trance of life by Gary Lachman, The Guardian, December 30, 2005	
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/dec/31/featuresreviews.guardianreview12

A related paper is:

Spencer, W., 2003, The Lost Aisle: Selling Atlantis in the “Spiritual 
Supermarket”. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. vol. 3, no. 1,
article 5-5.
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/b416h386r5387473/
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/b416h386r5387473/fulltext.pdf

Yours, 

Paul H.