AR12 Article: Cataclysm! 9500 BC By David Lewis
An Article In Issue Number 12 (Summer 1997) 



Cataclysm! 9500 BC
by 
David Lewis




In recent prehistory, possibly as late as 9,500 B.C. (the date ascribed by Plato 
to the sinking of Atlantis), a profoundly traumatic phenomenon plagued the 
earth. This event, the result of a distant cosmic explosion, caused severe 
volcanic eruptions, massive earthquakes, catastrophic flooding, and the upheaval 
of the world's mountain ranges. The earth's axis may have tilted, or its crust 
been violently displaced. Continents rose and sank. Mass extinctions of plants 
and animals followed, and a period of eerie global darkness. 
The catastrophe struck suddenly, researchers report. Those that survived sought 
refuge in caves and high mountains, the record of their plight preserved to this 
day in hundreds of ancient deluge/conflagration myths from virtually every 
cultural tradition. Scientists gathered the evidence for such a catastrophe in 
the last century, and more recently, but explained away parts of it through ice 
age theory, now known to be fundamentally flawed. The rest of the evidence, 
until now, science has been unable to explain. 
No, this is not the synopsis of Hollywood's next disaster extravaganza, nor a 
rehashing of Immanual Velikovsky's catastrophe theory, but the product of 
serious research and the subject of two soon-to-be released books written by 
independent experts in the field of recent prehistory. The compelling evidence 
assembled by these authors reveals the existence of a prehistoric reality that 
casts orthodox notions about early man into the realm of mere guess work. The 
books are: Cataclysm! Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9,500 BC, 
by D. S. Allan and J. B. Delair, and Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of 
the Apocalypse, by Paul LaViolette. 
ORTHODOX ASSUMPTIONS
With its long-standing preference for uniformitarianism (the doctrine that 
nothing sudden occurred in prehistory, only slow evolutionary and geological 
changes), modern science has discounted what was taken for granted in the last 
century: that hard evidence reveals a global catastrophe occurred recently on 
Earth. That bias, coupled with the dogma of scientific materialism, the 
presumption that all existence, even consciousness, evolved from matter alone, 
remains the unproven basis upon which conventional theories of human origins 
rest. 
Ice age theory was born about 180 years ago, in connection with studies carried 
out in the Alps. Geology was then only just being born. Pioneers of the day took 
most fossil evidence as having resulted from the Great Flood of tradition, the 
benchmark in world history before the birth of modern science, promulgated by 
classical writings and religion, and tied to beliefs that the world is a mere 
4,000-6,000 years old. Geology, however, as a systematic science, found the 
earth was millions of years old, and that rain-induced flooding could not 
account for much of the geological devastation that occurred at the time of the 
mass extinctions. As the scientific movement adopted its uniformitarian dogma, 
it sought to explain away all prehistory in purely materialistic terms, 
discarding anything that smacked of superstition or catastrophism. Scientists of 
the day, in effect, threw out the baby with the floodwater, adopting prejudices 
about human origins and past civilizations that dominate to this day. 
Within this skewed climate, science ascribed some of the hard evidence of a 
great cataclysm in recent prehistory to the movement of glaciers, which 
undoubtedly took place in some areas. But relying on this theory alone 
necessitated a full blown ice age, then ice ages of greater duration and 
severity to account for mounting evidence that something extraordinarily severe 
had struck the planet, something that wiped out most of the world's mammals, 
uplifted mountain ranges, caused widespread volcanic explosions, carved valleys 
and fjords, and left massive deposits of stone and gravel strewn across the 
globe's land masses.
LETTING THE FACTS SPEAK
To understand more fully the story told by the scientific record, rather than 
what may be described as the contrived positions of orthodoxy, we spoke with J. 
B. Delair, a long-time researcher in the field of recent prehistory, and 
coauthor of Cataclysm!, published in '95 in the U.K. (to be released in the U.S. 
early this fall by Bear & Co. with introduction by Rand Flem-Ath). 
Delair told us that in his career as a researcher he had come upon many very 
strange anomalies including massive fossil records in bone caves, where the 
remains of countless numbers of incompatible prehistoric animals, saber-toothed 
tigers, lions, wolves, bison, rhinoceros, mammoth, were found washed into deep 
subterranean recesses, animals that perished in recent prehistory all over the 
world. Human beings, in many instances, were found in similar conditions, radio 
carbon dated to times consistent with the animal deaths, and from ethnic groups 
as diverse as European, Eskimo and Melanesian, as in the case of a find in 
China. Similar finds have been recorded in India, Brazil, North America and the 
Balkans. Geologists have also recorded finding the remains of hundreds of humans 
who died from natural causes in caves, apparently seeking refuge from the 
catastrophe.
As a result of this, I wasn't at all happy with some of the explanations, Delair 
said. One of these being the ice age, another being the chronology.
The key to unlocking the problem of the anomalies proved elusive. But Delair 
discovered he was not alone in his quest. He received a phone call from Dr. D.S. 
Allan, a biologist and researcher in the field of earth severance (shifting land 
masses), who shared similar interests, and a partnership was born. Coupling 
their talents and interdisciplinary backgrounds, they labored for years and 
found what appears to be the missing link that unlocks the secret of recent 
prehistory, global cataclysm.
Allan and Delair discovered that, contrary to scientific dogma, certain events 
took place very rapidly in earth's prehistory, such as the shifting of land 
masses, as in the case of their own British Isles, detached from the European 
mainland just 6,000 years ago. 
Allan, a Cambridge University doctor of philosophy, versed in physics, chemistry 
and biology, had already discovered that many of the same types of plants and 
animals have existed in different parts of the world when they should not, being 
separated by deserts or water. Delair characterized his knowledge of anomalous 
fossil evidence and Allan's of biological as two sides of the same coin....bits 
and pieces of the same puzzle. 
After years of work, those pieces would fit together, buttressed by an ignored 
scientific record that, when fully revealed, proved stunning. 
It throws a monkey wrench into almost everything, even evolution, Delair told 
us, when asked about the implications of his work. Evolution cannot always be a 
question of the survival of the fittest. You can have a sudden event that can 
wipe out the best and worst, the survival of the luckiest in those instances. he 
said.
Using carbon dating, the resources of the British Museum and the Cambridge 
University library, Delair and Allan established a time frame for the anomalous 
fossils, which in turn set a time frame for the event that caused their sudden 
demise.
The main thing is the dating of the fossils, Delair said. They are very, very 
recent in geological parlance, although quite old in human history. The changes 
they signify are enormous, because there are dislocations in entire faunas and 
floras by thousands of miles. There are also a lot of very abnormal burials. You 
get sea animals alongside birds and land animals, coal alongside tropical sea 
urchins, and all sorts of funny things.
CONTRIVED SCIENCE
It (the ice age) was an invention, Delair stated flatly, and in part a reaction 
to what early geologists and the scientific movement as a whole considered 
superstition, the Flood/Conflagra-tion legends. The original idea of an ice age 
going back millions of years, ebbing and flowing across the northern and 
southern hemispheres near the poles, just doesn't stand up to scrutiny, as you 
can see from our writings. We've drawn upon the literature which was, in fact, 
full of objections (to ice age notions), on geological and biological grounds.
Many Norwegian fjords, for example, thought to have been carved by ice sheets 
sliding down from mountains, are open ended. There is nowhere for the glaciers 
to have come down from, Delair said. The fjords were gigantic fissures, filled 
up with ice at some later time and smoothed by some ice action, but not caused 
by ice. So-called evidence for an ice age having occurred, more over, such as 
striation (grooved or ridged rocks) and erratically strewn boulders, supposedly 
the result of glacial movements, occurs in parts of the globe where an ice age 
is known not to have taken place.
Research funding that rewards conventional results, Delair told us, is partly 
responsible for perpetuating erroneous assumptions, along with trying to fit all 
the evidence into the same worn out theory, necessitating longer, geographically 
broader, and more numerous ice ages. Also, Delair notes, fitting the pieces of 
this grand puzzle of prehistory together requires expertise in a variety of 
fields. Dr. Allan, what's more, devoted his retirement to this study, a 
concentration of effort few, if any, conventionally employed researchers would 
be able to accomplish.
The picture Allan, Delair and others paint, supported by a great deal of field 
evidence, resembles a catastrophe of mythic proportions. Ice age theory, on the 
other hand, fails time and again to account for the overwhelming field evidence. 
The devastation proves to have been so great, in fact, that nothing of earthly 
origin could have been responsible. Not even a comet or asteroid, Allan and 
Delair say, could have wreaked such severe damage. The destructive agent, they 
tell us, would not have been necessarily very large, but would have been 
magnetically powerful, an exploding star, a supernova, that hurled one or more 
pieces of its fiery mass our way, upsetting the axes and orbits of various 
planets through magnetic influence, as it moved like a pinball through our solar 
system for about nine years. The event wreaked horrific trauma upon various 
planets, and caused Earth to convulse, they say, but amounted to a minor 
incident in cosmic terms. 
COSMIC EXPLOSIONS
Evidence of a supernova explosion, in the form of aluminum 22 (along with other 
scientific and mythological evidence), found in concentration at the edge of our 
solar system, helped Allan and Delair conclude that a stellar blast probably 
caused the massive destruction. Iron ore in the earth from 11,000 years ago, its 
magnetic polarity violently reversed, also testifies to a powerful, 
extraterrestrial encounter with a magnetically powerful agent at the same time 
period. 
Dr. Paul LaViolette, author of Earth Under Fire, discovered evidence of a 
different sort of cataclysm, a volley of cosmic waves resulting from an 
explosion in the galactic core. Entering our solar system, this galactic super 
wave (the most powerful energetic phenomenon in the galaxy) would have 
interrupted the solar wind's ability to repel most intruding cosmic dust 
particles, letting the interstellar wind, in effect, have its way with us.
LaViolette, a systems scientist and physicist, found high concentrations of 
cosmic dust in undisturbed polar ice from Greenland at ice-age depths. He 
determined the amount of cosmic dust in the ice samples by measuring the amount 
of iridium, a metal that is rare on Earth but abundant in extraterrestrial 
material. The old uniformitarian assumption was that the rate of cosmic dust 
depositing in the earth would not have change over millions of years, but 
LaViolette found unusually high concentrations in his samples, and other 
evidence of a cosmic visitor during ice age times. 
In Earth Under Fire, a synthesis of astrophysics and ancient mythical and 
esoteric traditions, LaViolette details the case for the super wave phenomenon 
having recently passed through our solar system. He includes, in his body of 
evidence, the discovery by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft of narrow grooves, like 
that of a phonograph record, in the rings of Saturn, which, if millions of years 
old as uniformitarians maintain, would have banded together by now. LaViolette 
explains how the super wave would have caused the rings to appear as they do, 
even as Allan and Delair describe how a super nova chunk, would have disrupted 
the orbital paths and axial rotations of neighboring planets, indications that 
something of immense proportions came our way in recent prehistory. Some 
researchers stated, even before the Voyager visit, that Saturn's rings may be a 
mere 10,000-20,000 thousand years old, within the time period LaViolette, Allan, 
and Delair say the cataclysm took place.
Within months of the event, LaViolette says, a shroud of cosmic dust would have 
caused severe climatic changes on Earth, periods of darkness, severe cold, and 
then extreme heat, massive flooding, and incendiary temperatures as the dust 
interacted with the Sun, causing it to go into an active, flaring state, 
LaViolette said in a recent interview. If you could imagine the worst solar 
storm that's ever occurred and beef that up a thousand or hundred thousand 
times, that would be going on continuously...And then you have the possibility 
that a flare event could engulf the Earth. 
WHAT THE ANCIENTS KNEW
LaViolette builds a scientific and mythological foundation for cataclysm as a 
cyclical event, a recurrence of galactic core explosions in 26,000 year cycles, 
a period that relates to the precession of the equinoxes. This is the duration 
of one Great Year recognized by the ancient Greeks, Zoroastrians, and Chinese. 
Hindu scriptures recognize the same cycle, a succession of declining and 
advancing ages that seem to relate to our solar system's orbit around the 
galactic core, the apparent astrological focus of the Central Sun of existence, 
Brahma, conscious experience of which results in transcendental ecstasy and 
liberation from cycles of mortal suffering, or karma, not the least of which 
would be recurrent cataclysms. 
The Galactic core explosion cycle is another important cycle that Earth must 
reckon with, LaViolette urges, citing numerous ancient traditions, many of which 
reveal that advanced astronomical knowledge, and therefore advanced human 
beings, existed in precataclysmic times. 
The zodiac, in fact, LaViolette says, probably came down to us as a cryptogram, 
a time capsule, designed to alert us to the ongoing emanations from the galactic 
core, and that the sphinx and pyramids of the Giza plateau stand as an 
astronomical memorial to the great catastrophe. The figures of the zodiac, 
Delair told us, appear in most catastrophe myths. And the universality of this 
time capsule's message, the knowledge of cosmic cycles, is hard to ignore. 
LaViolette and others find it encoded in numerous myths, in cultural and 
mystical traditions, and in the world's megalithic architecture (see The Orion 
Mystery, Robert Bauval, Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock, and The 
Message of the Sphinx, Hancock and Bauval). As these commentators point out, the 
ancient myths speak universally of a sea-faring people who seem to have been the 
guardians of advanced knowledge. Their universal message, apparently passed down 
from a forgotten pre-cataclysmic world, urges human progress and harmony with 
the source of all creation. 
Almost unavoidably then, LaViolette, Allan and Delair, Hancock, and Bauval (see 
also Thompson and Cremo's Hidden History of the Human Race) reveal that recent 
prehistory was not at all what modern science, burdened by its prejudices, has 
erroneously assumed. A past cloaked in mystery comes to light, objectively, and 
the way mankind sees himself must profoundly change. A rich, diverse body of 
work has accumulated, interdisciplinary in nature, filled not only with ancient 
lore but hard evidence that supports timeless traditions. This body of work, 
moreover, discredits the dogma western science has promoted regarding human 
origins, the very nature of man.
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Ancient stories of a catastrophic flood have been recorded by civilizations around the world. One such account comes down to us from Plato (427 - 347 B.C.) concerning an ancient continent called "Atlantis" that existed 9,000 years before him. In fact, Plato’s account is the only ancient account of Atlantis. He describes how Atlantis was founded by the Greek god Poseidon and his sons and daughters by a mortal woman named Cleito. Plato describes at length the vast and wealthy nation they built:

"For their intentions were true and in all ways noble, and they showed gentleness with wisdom towards all their fortunes of life and in their dealings with each other. Thus, except for virtue, they paid little heed of their present wealthy circumstances and lightly bore, as it were, the burden of their gold and their ample possessions. In their sober-mindedness they clearly saw that all these good things are increased when general amity is combined with virtue.

But later in Plato's account:

"But after that, when the portion of divinity within them became forgotten, they became unsightly through being unable to handle their present circumstances. And Zeus, the god of gods, who reigns in Law, was mindful of how this fair race was in a wretched plight, and wished to inflict justice on them in order that — having been chastised — they might sound a truer note. So he assembled all the gods into their most honored abode [Olympus], and beholding all living things that partake of generation, and having assembled them, he said:

At this point Plato's story comes to an abrupt end. The rest of his account, like Atlantis herself, has completely vanished into the mists of the distant past. All that remains is an ocean — the one into which Atlantis presumably disappeared — which still bears her name: the Atlantic Ocean.

(Quotations from Plato's Critias — translated by William Wilde Zeitler)