Part 5 of the investigation. We directly tested whether the Great Circle alignment preserves traces of a pre-Younger Dryas civilization.
Three radiocarbon databases merged. 16,483 dates older than 12,800 BP. Ten of them fall on the corridor. Random circles average 127. The corridor is emptier than average before the Younger Dryas.
The early Holocene spike (5.75× enrichment at 10,500-10,000 BP) turned out to be an artifact – when you compare against the Fertile Crescent region instead of a global baseline, it drops to 1.10×. The circle passes through the Fertile Crescent, which is densely occupied in the early Holocene. Any circle through that region would show the same enrichment.
We tested five Atlantis candidate regions. The only one with pre-YD activity is the Atlantic west of Gibraltar – 328 dates, all explained by known Iberian Upper Palaeolithic populations. Persian Gulf: zero. Sunda Shelf: zero. Richat Structure: zero.
The submerged regions caveat is real – the Persian Gulf and Bay of Bengal were above water during the ice age and have zero archaeological coverage. Absence of data isn't absence of activity. But in every region where we CAN look, the result is the same: the corridor was empty.
by tractorboynyc