Remaining on the same theme as the previous story – the 6200BC event and its aftermath, we have a nice piece of Chinese research. The 8.2 ka year event is described as an important watershed in human history as it involved widespread changes in sea level around the continental shelf systems of the world. What happened in China?
At https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ka-event-triggered-social-destruction.html … Dr Yuchen Tan and colleagues examined the consequences of the event on the North China Plain – at the point of the abrupt climatic change at 8.2 ka years ago. A settlement at Jiahu not only survived the actual event itself but demonstrated remarkable resilience to what was a dramatic shift to a colder and harsher environment. This, they say, shows that the event was not universally ‘catastrophic’ in nature. People continued to live at Jiahu, and in fact the population increased as people from surrounding settlements in northern China experienced declines and abandonment of their settlements. Why might this have been?
The event is marked in ice cores in Greenland as a temporary cooling event that lasted between 200 and 300 years. A sort of short version of the Younger Dryas event. The jiahu region is strewn with thousands of rivers and small water channels and the secret of its occupation at this time may simply have been the availability of water in what was an extreme climatic upheaval. Not only was there water but these rivers would have been rich in resources, such as fish and aquatic life in general. Hungry people made their way to the water rich environment just as in times of drought and hardship people made their way into the Nile valley and the delta system, from the Levant in the east and Libya in the west.
Jiahu did actually display evidence of local transformation. The number of burials increased significantly, representing the arrival of newcomers. The archaeologists divided the period into three separate stages. The situation prior to 8.2 ka. The situation around the 8.2 ka year event, Thirdly, the situation after the climate anomaly had righted itself. The latter was marked by flooding and eventual abandonment of Jiahu, following a couple of hundred years. This seems to show that the 8.2 ka event was not specifically associated with differences in ground water levels, or sea levels at the coast, but they occurred after the climate had settled down once again. Why should that be? Sea levels are supposed to rise as a result of melting glaciers or polar ice caps. That could hardly have occurred during what was a cold or generally unsettled period of the event itself. One possible reason might be that the various dryas events, included the minor one at 8.2 ka years ago, were in effect wobbles in the earth. Such wobbles can last for a thousand years – or even more. Quite unlike the known chandler wobbles counted in decades rather than hundreds or thousands of years. These earth wobbles have hardly been explored by scientists. In the West this is largely due to the fact that such catastrophic ideas are not allowed to see the light of day. Hopefully, the Chinese, who never experienced an academic rebellion against what had previously been a Biblical set of events that had dominated European thinking for hundreds of years, may look more closely at what might have been responsible for these so called climatic events. A wobble would create a situation in which cold weather was interspersed with warm weather and there is some vague evidence this was the situation during the Younger Dryas, for example. The wobble in the dipole, or electromagnetic heart of the earth system, may have settled back down in a slightly different location from when the event was set in motion. This would have led to a rearrangement of earth’s oceans, adjusting to a new geoid which may have involved a relocation of earth’s oceanic bulge in the tropics and its flattening at the poles. It is an interesting subject but research on what really happened is long overdue. At the moment, in the West it has been strangled. Virtually nobody in the West believes in the literacy of the Bible anymore and at the moment it is academia holding back, too weak and frightened to embrace the idea of catastrophic events with an origin in the cosmos.
If a wobble is considered it would explain why so many sea level changes occur not precisely at 6200BC but several hundred years afterwards – after the wobble had come to a halt.