It is apparent that many do not understand what will happen. It will be the end of a cycle. Does this mean anything ? Well all we can do is look back at what happened at the end of the end of the last two Mayan cycles.

Last one ended about 3114 BC:

... 3114 BC—According to the most widely accepted correlations between the Western calendar and the calendar systems of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the mythical starting point of the current Mesoamerican Long Count calendar cycle occurs in this year.[1] The Long Count calendar, used and refined most notably by the Maya civilization but also attested in some other (earlier) Mesoamerican cultures, consisted of a series of interlocked cycles or periods of day-counts, which mapped out a linear sequence of days from a notional starting point. The system originated sometime in the Mid- to Late Preclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, during the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.[2] The starting point of the most commonly used highest-order cycle[3]—the b'ak'tun-cycle consisting of thirteen b'ak'tuns of 144,000 days each—was projected back to an earlier, mythical date. This date is equivalent to 11 August 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar (or 6 September in the proleptic Julian calendar), using the correlation known as the "Goodman-Martinéz-Thompson (GMT) correlation". The GMT-correlation is worked out with the Long Count starting date equivalent to the Julian Day Number (JDN) equal to 584283, and is accepted by most Mayanist scholars as providing the best fit with the ethnohistorical data.[4] Two succeeding dates, the 12th and 13th of August (Gregorian) have also been supported, with the 13th (JDN = 584285, the "astronomical" or "Lounsbury" correlation) attracting significant support as according better with astronomical observational data.[5] Although it is still contended which of these three dates forms the actual starting base of the Long Count, the correlation to one of this triad of dates is definitively accepted by almost all contemporary Mayanists. All other earlier or later correlation proposals are now discounted.[4] The end of the thirteenth baktun is either on December 21 or 23 of 2012. ...

Events
Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae, Europe's most complete Neolithic village.

* c. 3150 BC: Narmer (First Dynasty) started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
* c. 3125 BC: Narmer died.
* Varna Necropolis: what have been claimed to be the earliest-known worked gold artifacts are manufactured.
* Malta: Construction of the Ħaġar Qim megalithic temples, featuring both solar and lunar alignments. "Tarxien period" of megalithic temple construction reaches its apex.
* Ancient Egypt: Earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphs, beginning of the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt.
* Crete: Rise of Minoan civilization.
* Neolithic settlement built at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. (pictured)
* New Stone Age people in Ireland build the 250,000 ton (226,796.2 tonne) Newgrange solar oriented passage tomb.
* c. 3100 BC: The earliest phase of Stonehenge construction begins. [/i]

The date of the previous one would be about 8000 BC

Observe:

Events:

* c. 8000 BC—The last glacial period ends.
* c. 8000 BC—Upper Paleolithic period ends.
* c. 8000 BC—7000 BC—Paleolithic–Neolithic overlap (Mesolithic).
* c. 8000 BC—2300 BC—Neolithic period.
* c. 8000 BC—Settlement in Franchthi Cave in Pelopponese, Greece, continues. First evidence of seed and animal stocking (lentils, almonds) and obsidian trade with Melos. The settlement was continuously occupied since 20,000 BC and abandoned in 3000 BC.
* c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Nevali Cori in present-day Turkey are established.
* c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Sagalassos in present-day southwest Turkey are established.
* c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Akure in present-day southwest Nigeria are established.
* c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Øvre Eiker and Nedre Eiker in present-day Buskerud, Norway are established.
* c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Ærø, Denmark are established.
* c. 8000 BC—Settlements at Deepcar near present-day Sheffield, England are established.
* c. 8000 BC—North American Arctic is inhabited by hunter-gatherers of the Paleo-Arctic Tradition.
* c. 8000 BC—Pre-Anasazi Paleo-Indians move into present-day Southwest United States.
* c. 8000 BC—Plano cultures inhabit the Great Plains area of North America (from 9th millennium)
* c. 8000 BC—World population: 5,000,000[1]
* c. 7500 BC—Settlements at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross, Scotland are constructed.
* c. 7500 BC—Çatalhöyük, a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, is founded.
* c. 7500 BC—Cattle Period begins in the Sahara.
* c. 7500 BC—Mesolithic hunter-gatherers are the first humans to reach Ireland.
* c. 7370 BC—End of the large settlement at Jericho.
* c. 7200–5000 BC—Ain Ghazal, Jordan is inhabited. 30 acres (120,000 m2). [/i]

Two eras ending with earth changing and earth shattering events taking place.

So will something happen in or around 2012 ?

No because nothing ever happens here on Earth that we are not aware of ... Oh brother are many in for a huge surprise.

Don Barone



"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db