Could we have a discussion about Precession of the Equinoxes/ axial presession and how it relates to the deluge myths and the theories surrounding the onset of ice ages? Graham Hancock mentions it in Fingerprint of The Gods.
Those things have less to do with ice ages and more to do with enabling the dating of artifacts within Hancock's argument.
Magicians of the gods build on the previous work and posits that "something" hit the north American ice sheets causing the deluge (or one of them) that are recorded and dated by Hancock et al.
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>Those things have less to do with ice ages and more to do with enabling the dating of artifacts within Hancock's argument.
That is a part of what he was arguing, to me the more important or interesting aspect of his was that throughout history and across many different civilizations mankind has placed a great emphasis on studying the heavens and specifically the precession of the equinoxes.
This science of axial precession was very important to ancient cultures as it allowed them to calculate the seasons precisely but it seems to me that it also enabled them to predict long into the future when such cataclysm might most likely occur, i.e in the form of flooding/glacial freezing etc.
>http://grahamhancock.com/martineauj1/
this is quite a good article about it.
