The Day the Ice Age Ended - What Happened When the World Flooded? (11,600 Years Ago)

What happened when the last Ice Age ended - not slowly, not gently, but in a surge of melting ice, rising seas, and landscapes disappearing beneath four hundred feet of water? Around eleven thousand six hundred years ago, the world changed forever. The glaciers collapsed, the oceans surged inland, and entire coastlines vanished.
In this slow, cinematic documentary, we explore the real science behind the end of the Ice Age: Greenland ice cores, meltwater pulses, Younger Dryas climate shocks, drowned landscapes, and the early Holocene world that shaped the first human cultures.
This is not myth, not speculation - just what the stones, sediments, and ancient shorelines allow us to know. A quiet history of how our world began.
If you’re listening while sleeping, studying, or driving, timestamps are here for you. Drift in and out - the story will be waiting when you return.

🕯️ The story of humanity… told softly.
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𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒:

00:00 - What Ended the Frozen World?
13:54 - How Global Temperatures Spiked
26:46 - Why the World Re-Froze Overnight
37:50 - The Final Thaw
49:19 - How the Ice Sheets Collapsed
1:01:04 - How Fast Did Sea Levels Really Rise?
1:11:46 - The Lost Coastlines of Early Humans
1:23:17 - How Hunter-Gatherers Built Their Coasts
1:34:37 - How Ancient Communities Responded to a Changing Sea
1:46:48 - Did Glacial Dams Fail in Days, Not Centuries?
1:56:39 - Cities Beneath the Waves
2:04:57 - The Birth of a Shared Human Memory
2:19:26 - How the End of the Ice Age Started Our World

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📌 Calm science, evolutionary psychology, no hype, no speculation - just what we know so far. Bedtime stories for burnt-out sapiens.
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► REFERENCES:

Greenland ice core data from NGRIP and GISP paleotemperature reconstructions.
Paleovegetation and pollen evidence synthesized from Quaternary Science Reviews on late Pleistocene environmental transitions.
Coral-based sea-level reconstructions from Tahiti and Barbados terraces, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Late Pleistocene meltwater influx isotopic analysis from Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.
Bathymetric reconstructions from global seafloor mapping projects published by NOAA and GEBCO.
Sea-level and paleoshoreline modeling analyses from Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Pleistocene outburst flood sedimentology from Geomorphology Journal.
Hydrodynamic modeling and ice-dam failure studies from Quaternary Science Reviews.
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