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Evidences that the Ice Age Ended around 1500 B.C. and the implications for Earth Chronology

The presence of megalithic structures on the sea-floor in various non-seismically affected offshore areas of the world strongly suggests the melting of the Ice Age ice-packs at a time far later than is popularly advertised. Maps saved from the Library of Alexandria which were authored by the ancient "Tyranean Sea Fish" and were later utilized by Turkish admirals surprisingly reveal Ice Age coastlines from before the end of the Ice Age (that is before the subsequent rise of sea-level by hundreds of feet in the middle latitudes).

Sea level rose less (nearer the melting Ice Age ice-packs of the more extreme latitudes) because of isostatic rebound of the continental rock beneath the then massive but rapidly melting ice-packs, and therefore, vast swaths of southern Asia were submerged with the end of the Ice Age (as confirmed by Indus megaliths off northwest India, Tamil megaliths off southern India, and Jomon megaliths off Taiwan), but less land was claimed by the sea in the Mediterranean because of its proximity to the post-Ice Age isostatic rebound.

The presence of the submerged Asian megaliths and submerged Mediterranean megaliths of Egyptian/Phoenician style (all of motifs characteristic of circa 2000 B.C.) suggest that the Ice Age ended after this date, and probably ended around 1500 B.C., as suggested by various ancient legends. The seismic activity around 1500 B.C. is well known (such as the Thera eruption, the destruction of the Minoans, and the Exodus), and it also is well known that people groups were intensely migrating around this time, thus corroborating this period of isostatic readjustment.

The presence of structures of sun-worship (stone circles, pyramids, and dolmens) on the sea-floor as on land in many parts of the world, and the evidences from rock-art of Ice Age climates and fauna during the building of the most ancient megalithic structures, all of these indicate the onset and close of the Ice Age within about 800 years, ending around 1500 B.C., as oxygen 18 isotope concentration increases with depth in the polar ice-packs indicate that the Ice Age was caused by warmer ocean water (by about 10 degrees centigrade), and ended when the oceans had cooled to about the current average temperature.

The cause of the warmer ocean water that induced the Ice Age was known by all of the ancient civilizations and is known by hundreds of extant tribes, and the warmer ocean water for this Ice Age obviously must have been sourced from heat, magma, and water from beneath the earth's crust, as confirmed by the ancient people groups' collective memory of a global catastrophe which apparently was induced by meteor impact, according ancient lore.

The earliest clans of people after the global catastrophe (and while the Ice Age was beginning) established highly advanced cultures and architectures, some of which were submerged when the Ice Age ended near 1500 B.C. The predominance of astronomical structures of sun and star veneration on land as well as sea-floor, and the ancient map and rock-art indications that advanced humans sailed the seas and lived in Ice Age climates, these all show that the Ice Age was ongoing while the oceans were cooling after the globally catastrophic effusions from beneath the earth's crust.

References:

Michael J. Oard, An Ice Age Caused by the Genesis Flood (El Cajon, California: Institute for Creation Research, 1990).

Charles H. Hapgood, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings (Kempton, Illinois: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1996).

Graham Hancock, Underworld (New York, New York: Crown Publishers, 2002).

Michael Grant, The Ancient Mediterranean (New York, New York: Penguin Books, 1969).