Interesting post at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250416151919.htm … Laschamp is best known, not as a catastrophic event, but as an excursion of the magnetic poles. They actually flipped for a while – and then returned to where they began. Hence, some research on the Laschamp event is solely focussed on the excursion and its repercussions. In this instance, it must have affected humans. However, as with all things mainstream, it begins with an assumption. This is that modern humans and Neanderthals were living side by side – in spite of the excursion’s intensity being a barrier to C14 dating prior to the event. Having said that the old dates for both Neanderthals and modern humans, from excavation and C14 dating, have been superceded by the idea that modern humans were living thousands of years earlier – even though the genetic ancestry of these remains did not survive into the post-Laschamp event period. The effect of this is to water down the catastrophic nature of the Laschamp event – on the assumption modern humans survived it. Somehow. The idea of radiation creating a change in Neanderthals is not part of the mainstream scenario. They appear to want to keep the Neanderthals separate at any cost. In order to keep the Out of Africa theory alive and kicking. It appears to be a case of politics influencing science.
The press release begins – modern humans may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes, and the use of caves during the shift of the magnetic north pole – across Europe. Hemce, the research is Eurocentric and is not very interested in what was happening elsewhere. Laschamp was a global event and should be looked at in the round. Hence, they seek an explanation of some kind in order to account for the survival of modern humans and the demise of the Neanderthals. As if Neanderthals were unable to seek shelter in caves – even though it is though they were responsible for some of the early cave art in Europe. I suppose the fact that Australian Aborigines are modern humans and they got there before Laschamp is a point in their favour – unless yuo think the Aborigines were related to the Denisovans, like the Solomon Islanders. We may note the Denisovans also disappeared at the same time as the Neanderthals. Is the impetus behind this kind of thinking a wish that modern Europeans have no connection with their forebears, the Neanderthals. Are they still hooked on the idea the latter were numbskulls – cave men fond of grunting.
Researchers say the magnetic North Pole meandered across Europe when the magnetic poles started to flip position. This, they say, is a natural process that has occurred many times in geological history. The magnetic field, we are told, weakened so much that aurora were visible over most of the world, allowing harmful UV light to come in from space. Mutations from space is ignoThe assumption, as mainstream is rigidly uniformitarian, is that it happened gradually – but did it? Homo sapiens used clothing and ochre, to protect themselves, we are told, even though ochre was being used liberally by people long before Laschamp. However, they have a novel use for it – to protect the skin. They also lived in caves – hence all the cave art that flourished during the Late Glacial Maximum, and post Ice Age period. In addition, do they think Neanderthals did not wear clothing?
The problem is that Laschamp was much bigger than a geomagnetic excursion, or reversal. It involved a mass die-off event and that usually suggests a space rock was involved somewhere. I can see why mainstream would not want to go down that avenue. Bombarded by space rocks, the survivors may have found sanctuary from it all in caves and rock shelters. Not just the UV light. The research however is very useful as it is throwing up problems mainstream have ignored and do not wish to meet head on. We need more of this but researchers are hampered by the uniformitarian model and they hit the buffers. At least the problem with radiation is now out in the open.