Archaeological sites that have been found using modern Computer Archaeology techniques including magnetometry, computer imaging, satellite imagery, as well as stratification and other dating techniques, when cross-examined by applying modern scientific techniques such as cariology, botany and genetics, suggest that if humans and domesticated animals had lived underground for extensive amounts of time during a proposed Solar Induced Dark Age (SIDA) from 9700 BCE until after 5000 BCE, then these populations acted as reservoirs for fungal DNA during that time. This facilitated rapid co-evolutions of micro-organismic life in which their commensality was overwhelmingly selected for in order to avoid dying out during that time. In the pursuit of maintaining the co-biotic relationship, fungal soil biomass may have been selected for mammalian pathogenic behavior upon leaving the underground. This selection would have been due to abundant farming yields being selected by humans over those that did not produce abundance, which ensured a soil biomass that produced the greatest crop yields to be selected over a short time. This all was likely enabled by pervasive Plasma Strike events during the SIDA that may have vitrified the existing crystalline nanobiowire network in the topsoil across much of the world, killing embedded ancient mycelial networks. This likely left the topsoil layer as an open ecological niche upon the end of the SIDA. The resulting co-evolution between humans and fungus posited the subsequent expansion in both fungal biodiversity and human population which propelled both into the age of modern civilization that is enjoyed thousands of years since.
The general premise of this thesis rests on there being a Solar Induced Dark Age as proposed by Dr. Robert Schoch in his book Forgotten Civilization, which he refers to as the, “period from the end of the last ice age to the reemergence of civilization six thousand years later.” (Schoch 303). During this time, Schoch proposes that, “a major solar outburst (or outbursts) snapped Earth out of its last ice age, concurrently melting glaciers and evaporating massive amounts of water that subsequently fell as torrential rains, causing widespread flooding” (Schoch 315). Schoch earlier wrote that these outbursts would often manifest as, “Plasma hitting the surface of Earth [that] could heat and fuse rock, incinerate flammable materials, melt ice caps, vaporize shallow bodies of water, and send the climate into a warming spell.” (Schoch 124). With previous habitats possibly uninhabitable, these events may have produced drastic changes to the Earth which may have fueled a “jump” from soil biomass to mammalian biomass of many microorganisms, including fungus.
The first evidence of this jump to be discussed here is seen as an uptick in dental caries during a possible “great resurgence” of civilization from underground havens. One such European grouping is found in the Funnel Beaker cultural group where, “early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in present-day Poland exhibited fewer caries- and periodontal disease-associated microbe taxa than Neolithic farming groups in present-day Germany.” (Bergfeldt para. 3). This is important because the large increase in dental caries coincides with a transition from a Mesolithic to a Neolithic population in 10,000 BCE, which is during Schoch’s proposed SIDA. Additionally, awareness of dental hygiene is evidenced by hundreds of thousands of years of awareness of oral hygiene techniques including toothpicks, evidenced by a study on ancient dental caries that cites, “more recent analyses done in an specimen of Homo erectus from Olduvai Gorge (1.84 million years BP) suggest that it could be an erosion produced by the habitual (possibly therapeutic) use of tooth-picks,” on referring to the eroded state of the tooth (Lanfranco 4). Because of this, it would be reasonable to say that oral hygiene, to some degree, was a worldwide phenomenon well before the existence of agriculture, and it could not be due to a lack of awareness of how to practice it that could explain the proliferation of dental caries alone. The importance of the Funnel Beaker society is that it represents, “The earliest evidence of farming communities in southern Scandinavia [which] is associated with the TRB culture, and dates to around 6000 BP.” (Malmström para. 4). Here, TRB is an annotation for “Trichterbecherkultur”, which translates to “Funnel Beaker Culture”.
Two more examples are the “Polish Pyramids”, and a burial site at Dębiany, which involved numerous megaliths built by the Funnel Beaker cultural group. The “Polish Pyramids” are best referred to as The Kujawy megaliths, and are currently referenced as tombs. Complicating this, Micha Ruszkowski in his article, Megality kujawskie, indicates that, “These temples were places of worship for several hundred years. There is no doubt that the megaliths were an important place of worship for the local community, a place of worship or religion” (Courtesy Google Translate, Ruszkowski 98). He later indicates that granites and sandstones were the most used building materials. Notable also from this article is that it was discussed that livestock was favored over agriculture. The presence of rock greatly influences soil resistivity, and rock has a tendency to spread more deadly current apart further, more suddenly, and at lower resistances (Gravelle 15-17 & 25-26). This would translate to more people, on average, being able to survive more Plasma Blasts, than using soil alone, were one to create their fallout shelter out of stone pillars rather than dirt or wood alone, as was possibly the case in the megaliths discussed by Ruszkowski. Would it be possible that these sites were used for protection first, and tombs later? Is it possible that the stones selected might show signs of vitrification, and were possibly selected as neolithic fallout shelters to protect the community during Plasma Storms?
These questions above are outside the scope of this paper, but it is notable that the mounds located in Dębiany from the same cultural group were found in 2021 recently using Magnetometry and satellite images. The ensuing excavation indicated that the, “Tomb walls were of wooden poles, not of stones, as is most often the case in Poland” (Akademickiej para. 3). This indicates a correlation to possible Plasma Strike events that may have been occurring when the people were making the megaliths because in the case of Dębiany there may have been none at all in that region or during that time. This suggests that a diverse number of areas that may have been affected by actual Plasma Strikes, or that they came in across different years. It is proposed by Johannes Müller in his book Megaliths and Funnel Beakers that, “originally almost at least a half a million megalithic tombs probably had been erected.” (Müller 6). Later in that book, Müller indicates there are many different patterns related to how these were built and the materials of construction (Müller 51, 58). Because of the abundance of megalithic evidence, it’s possible that future analysis may yield greater evidence to answer questions about the full history of these structures. Additionally, this is a single cultural group of many known across the world that were similarly moving into their own Neolithic revolutions.
To momentarily recollect, there is evidence of large stone European megaliths which may have facilitated underground living for short periods of time, there is evidence of favoring livestock over agriculture, there is evidence of an order-of-magnitude increase in human dental caries emerging immediately in the first agricultural groups to live as farmers (not over time), and there is evidence of a change in the material and construction style of the some 500,000 European megaliths at different times throughout the end of the SIDA. The link to a primarily agricultural lifestyle taking over may have coincided with the actual end of the Plasma Strike events for the Funnel Beaker group at the end of the SIDA. This is because during the SIDA, atmospheric plasma may have obliterated many years of well-established soil biomass which would have been composed primarily of fungus and lichens. Prior to the SIDA, the soil biomass may have reached an ecologically balanced state where biodiversity may have been high, but the rate of new evolutions and extinctions of species was low because all available ecological niches at the time may have been filled in most globally-distributed mycorrhizal networks.
This may have influenced human farming techniques, because seed germination is known to be controlled by the mycorrhizal network and soil biomass. One example is the Orchid flower which, “can only germinate with the help of mycorrhizal fungi.” (Gabbatis). The potential lack of an available ecological niche may have prevented large-scale farming before 10,000 BCE, despite potential knowledge of agricultural techniques all the way back to 21,000 BCE. In support of this, a PLOS One article states that, “earliest indications for the presence of proto-weeds [are found] in a site predating the Neolithic plant domestication by some 11,000 years.” (Snir 8). This establishes that farming was possibly attempted for more than ten millennia, before the agricultural revolutions actually happened. As plasma interacted with the topsoil during the 9700 BCE SIDA, the transformation from biomass to simply mass may have left the soil in a “superfertile” state in which hardly any ecological niches in the soil were filled.
The resulting potential death of biomass may have been the results of Plasma Strikes during the SIDA, because soil resistivity may have permitted the plasma EM discharge to propagate through the hybrid mycorrhizal-microbial network that was composed of nanobiowires, which are, “a global web of bacteria-generated nanowires that permeates all oxygen-less soil and deep ocean beds” (Awngmai). Soil resistivity is a common concern for designing substations in order to prevent safety issues relating to electrical current leeching into the ground, and actually serves as part of an electrical circuit in the presence of Electromagnetic Radiation (Gravelle 23). This indicates that electrical damage to the soil mycobiome and associated biomass should be expected for Plasma Strikes due to the incredible Electromagnetic energies present.
The destruction of the living soil biomass may have set the stage for unrestrained evolution and growth of microorganisms, along with energy-dense plant matter that was preferred by humans and livestock. Upon the end of the SIDA, folks would have began to see that farming techniques were successful despite having been aware of them for over 10,000 years. Therefore it’s possible that the facilitation of a move to an agricultural life was made possible. Additional evidence suggests there exists evidence which suggests that fungal biodiversity across millions of years was at its absolute lowest just 10,000 years ago (Lydolph 5). This means that it’s possible that fungus biodiversity had been in decline for a very long time, and then something happened (Such as SIDA Plasma Strikes) that enabled the Fungi Kingdom to become very diverse in a short amount of time. This would tend to be magnified in the case with new ecological niches becoming available, as well as old ones, and not just the expansion of a niche that may have already been there such as in the case of trying to plant seeds that folks may have been trying to plant for ten thousand years with no real success. There may be evidence of this, at a future date, following genetic analysis of fungal DNA such as Lofgren indicates through, “high-throughput sequencing, along with shotgun and targeted metagenomics” (Lofgren 1).
Tying this together, it’s likely that thousands of years of plasma scorched away potentially millions of years of fungal, biological and lichen overgrowth in the soil biomass likely cleared the top few meters of dirt of most micro-organisms on a worldwide scale. This may be a root cause of the sudden “resurgence” of soil-farming techniques that likely had been tried in the past but would have failed due to whatever prevented massive crops from being established in a single location for any meaningful amount of time. Somewhat circumstantially, Gregorio Oxilia indicates that, “Recent studies show that dietary changes towards a more carbohydrate-rich diet (e.g., large exploitation of grains and starches) may have occurred well before the Neolithic, predating the origin of agriculture by ca. 10,000 years, if not 20,000 years.” (Oxilia 6). This means that it’s possible that agricultural techniques were well known and practiced way before for longer than humans have currently been living an agricultural way of life.
Due to the relative ease by which plants are cultivated today, and the large span of time from incipient farming (20000 BCE) to agricultural revolution (After 10000 BCE) suggests an impediment, or selection mechanism, in place that has since been removed. This may have been an ancient fungal network that had characteristics that prevented the cultivation of the soil by humans, in a way analogous to the way rainforest tree canopies prevent growth on the forest floor. Because most biomass comes from the first foot of soil (Franzluebbers para. 2), and as Schoch writes in his book that “the surface of the planet would be literally fried by the incoming electrical currents,” (Schoch 6) in the event of a plasma discharge from the sun, it may be possible that during any plasma event that most soil biomass during this time became just soil mass, instead.
The corresponding deaths and subsequent extinction of megaflora and megafauna around that time may support the idea that a “megamycorrhizal” network also went extinct around the end of the same Ice Age. Such a concept may even be a prerequisite for even supporting megaflora that could select for megafauna to even exist in the first place. There is evidence that suggests that as glaciers withdraw, they facilitate the increase in biodiversity in fungal life (Dresch 1). Algal blooms that follow the withdrawing of glaciers are predominantly to blame for the increase in fungal biodiversity (Perini 1). This suggests that that as glaciers withdraw, algal blooms facilitate overgrowth of fungal biodiversity. There was a collaborative study performed where Magnus Lydolph summarizes that, “A statistical analysis of the shift in fungal community structures calculated by using Shannon’s H value suggested that there was decreasing fungal diversity from the Pleistocene (300-400 ky sample) to the Holocene (10 ky sample), presumably followed by an increase in diversity up to modern times (Fig. 2B). The 10 ky sample, in addition, exhibited the lowest equitability of the four samples, which can be explained by the dominance of a single cluster of Cryptococcus (Basidomycota)-associated sequences.” (Lydolph 5). Thus, it’s possible that the reason fungal biodiversity was at its lowest point since a half million years ago, in 10,000 BCE, because of a reduction in algal bloom due to freshwater deposits potentially being evaporated due to Plasma Strikes during the SIDA.
During this time, and as suggested per this same study from Lydolph, there is notable evidence of fungal DNA in places such as the hair and nails of mammals which implies that this had not usually been the case (Lydolph 5). What is important to note here is that as the habitats and ecological niches for fungal and microbial life were changed through extinctions, Ice Ages, over-hunting, Plasma Strikes, they may have found refuge in mammalian life that acted as a reservoir through those times. Upon the human resurgence after the 9700 BCE SIDA, there may have been a corresponding fungal resurgence in the soil that may mirror the extent of human activity on the planet today that has largely gone unnoticed until recently. This suggests that the SIDA may have started earlier, as the destruction of an ancient mycorrhizal network in the soil may have accelerated the extinction of megaflora, thus in turn leading to the cascading extinction of megafauna. The ability to study fungal networks is still being made possible through advances in technology that enable computational and AI-aided analysis of fungal genomes, etc…, which would yield more information that is beyond the current scope of this paper which merely suggests a high probability of correlation of fungal evidence that could substantiate the existence of a SIDA from 9700 BCE onward.
In conclusion, the idea that there should be large amounts of micro-organismic evidence that supports SIDA is important to proving it as a valid theory. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence that suggests that during this time, mammalian co-evolution with fungal organisms occurred in a very rapid way. During this time, Plasma Strikes from a SIDA may have caused chaos on the topsoil layer of the Earth that contained the largest amount of biomass. This resulted in a very large human population boom as a result of recently-regrown mycorrhizal networks in the soil that took the place of ancient ones that were vitrified by Plasma Strike events. This paper aimed to suggest that the proposals outlined are linked in such a way that computer analysis will be needed to identify differences in genealogies of generations of fungal ancestry in order to substantiate these claims that a SIDA in which fungi and humans coevolved underground in recent history took place. It was discussed that the sudden uptick in caries does not support independent inventionism of technologies, but instead a resurgence of human technology and agency that was inhibited for thousands of years took place. Modern civilization may have been accelerated by the same SIDA that had destroyed the ancient soil biomass, and ancient civilization, by leaving massive and superfertile ecological niches that were able to be filled by fungal and microbial life that had lived in mammalian life in the underground or through migrations caused by a SIDA. This is not a a confirmation that there is mycological evidence that supports the proposed Solar Induced Dark Age. The types of techniques that may prove this in the future include magnetometry, high throughput genetic analysis, metagenomics, satellite imagery, and much more that may lead to proving this at some future date.
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