Did a Global Catastrophe 16,500 Years Ago Send Humans Into Caves? | Ancient Architects

Many of you will have seen my last video on the ancient cave settlement in Turkey, a site known as Gedikayya or Inhisar Cave, which contains evidence of a human settlement from 16,500 years ago. You can watch here: After reading this news story in the Turkish press, I researched the time period and saw that it coincided with the H1 Heinrich Event, which saw global temperatures plunging, a few thousand years before the famous Younger Dryas event. During H1 we have reduced global temperatures, which varies from continent to continent and we have a more arid North Africa with low lake levels. But this is actually the tip of the iceberg and with more research, around 16,500 years the Earth was in the middle of a major and sudden climate catastrophe.