Source: One Spark youtube, www.robertschoch.com
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Full lecture from the 2026 Snippy festival.
Dr. Robert M. Schoch is Director of the Institute for the Study of the Origins of Civilization (ISOC) at Boston University's College of General Studies, where he has been a faculty member since 1984.
He earned his Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University in 1983. Schoch maintains that true civilization existed 12,000 years ago and was decimated by the cataclysmic events, initiated by our Sun, that ended the last ice age, circa 9700 BCE.
With John Anthony West, in the early 1990s Schoch uncovered geological evidence (water-weathering and water-erosion features) indicating the origins of the Great Sphinx date back millennia prior to its conventional dating of circa 2500 BCE. Subsequently, excavations of the 12,000-year-old megalithic site of Göbekli Tepe confirmed Schoch's assertions regarding the extreme antiquity of civilization.