Apr 29, 2020

Paradigm Altering Discovery Of Comet Impact Of 13,000 Years Ago Has To Be Taken Into Account When Examining Human History


All scientific evidence suggests that several fragments of a comet hit earth about 13000 years ago causing massive floods and fires. This would have wiped out any cultures existing in North America, Europe and anyone living on coastlines and we know that humans have been in North America for over 130,000 years and at least one very important component for a large interconnected culture/civilization existed in North America 13,000 years ago, i.e. large mammals. In other words, a comet impact is the most important factor to consider when analyzing ancient human history as it would have destroyed most of the global population and wiped out many geographical regions completely. 

Science Daily: Major cosmic impact 12,800 years ago Geologic and paleontological evidence unearthed in southern Chile supports the theory that a major cosmic impact event occurred approximately 12,800 years ago

Slate: Newly Discovered Alien Melt-Glass Supports Impact Theory on Mammoth Extinction
Were mammoths done in by a fragmented alien comet 13,000 years ago?
Probably, says a team of researchers studying melt-glass material from sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria. Scientists report the material discovered—formed at temperatures as high as 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit—isn’t cosmic, volcanic, or man-made, and is consistent with similar stuff found in places like Arizona’s Meteor Crater.
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Science Alert: 13,000 Years Ago, a Comet Set Earth on Fire Says Shocking New Evidence

Roughly 12,800 years ago, planet Earth went through a brief cold snap that was unrelated to any ice age. For years, there have been geologists that have argued that this period was caused by an airburst or meteor fragments (known as the Younger Dryas Impact Theory).


This event is believed to have caused widespread destruction and the demise of the Clovis culture in North American.
This theory has remained controversial since it was first proposed. However, an international team of scientists recently discovered geological evidence in South America that could settle the debate.
As the latest indication of an impact that took place during the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) period, this crater indicates that the effects of this event may have been more widespread than previously thought.
The paper which describes the team's findings recently appeared in the journal Science Reports.
The team was led by Chilean paleontologist Mario Pino and included multiple geologists from Chile and the United States, as well as James Kennett – the professor emeritus of geology at UC Santa Barbara.
As they indicate in their study, this latest impact crater was found in the Osorno province in southern Chile.
As Kennett noted in a recent article in The Current (a university press maintained by UCSB), the crater would have led to widespread destruction, characterized by biomass burning, megafaunal extinctions and global cooling.
"It's much more extreme than I ever thought when I started this work," he said. "The more work that has been done, the more extreme it seems."



BBC: Greenland ice sheet hides huge 'impact crater'


What looks to be a large impact crater has been identified beneath the Greenland ice sheet.
The 31km-wide depression came to light when scientists examined radar images of the island's bedrock.
Investigations suggest the feature was probably dug out by a 1.5km-wide iron asteroid sometime between about 12,000 and three million years ago.
But without drilling through nearly 1km of ice to sample the bed directly, scientists can't be more specific.
"We will endeavour to do this; it would certainly be the best way to get the 'dead fish on the table' (acknowledge the issue, rather than leaving it), so to speak," Prof Kurt Kjær, from the Danish Museum of Natural History, told BBC News.
If confirmed, the crater would be the first of any size that has been observed under one of Earth's continental ice sheets.



Scientific American: Did a Comet Hit Earth 12,000 Years Ago? Nanodiamonds found across North America suggest that major climate change could have been cosmically instigated

"Very strong impact indicators are found in the sediments directly above, and often shrouding in the case of Murray Springs, the remains of these animals and the people who were hunting them," says archaeologist and study co-author Doug Kennett of the University of Oregon in Eugene, the son in the father–son team helping to advance the new impact theory. "Is it a comet? Is it a carbonaceous chondrite? Was it fragmented? Was it focused? Based on the distribution of the diamonds, it was certainly large scale."

Preliminary searches further afield—Europe, Asia and South America—have turned up similar minerals and elements in sediments of the same age, Kennett says, and his own work on California's Channel Islands tells a tale of a massive burn-off, followed by erosion and a total change in the flora of the region.

"It's consistent with a fragmentary body breaking up with air shocks and possible surface impacts in various parts of North America. It could be above the ice sheet or offshore in the ocean," he says, explaining why no impact crater(s) has been found to date. "Immediate effects on the ground include high temperatures and pressures triggering major transformations of the vegetation, knocking trees over but also burning."

And that would make the climate shift of the Younger Dryas a closer cousin to the massive asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. "This is an event that happened on one day," Kennett notes. "We're going to need high-resolution climate records, archaeological records, paleontological records to try to explore the effects."

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Note: Interestingly enough, this clip of PBS Eons shows some of the evidence of flooding that happened with the comet impact but leaves out the comet itself as this clip is outdated;

How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World (w/ SciShow!)




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