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The cold snap ends about 11,700 years ago and the steadiest climate in the ice record begins: the one every harvest and every city since has grown in.
The mechanism
NEVER AGAIN A RESET — the long calm
How it was checked
- EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: ADDED 2026-09-18
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, ice core sample · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icecore_4.jpg
- SourcesMEASUREMENT — the Holocene's base in the NGRIP ice core, 11,700 years before AD 2000 (Walker et al. 2009)
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