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The Pleistocene-Holocene transition is a very significant period of time, because it marks what I believe is the true foundartions for the origins of civilisation, when we see the first permanent ...
This suggests that another species or lineage of humans coexisted in China, with the specimen from the Longlin Cave dated to approximately 11,510 years ago, around the onset of the Younger Dryas.
During the Younger Dryas, mainland western Scotland was covered by an ice cap. A smaller cap may have covered parts of Skye, and conditions there must have been exceptionally hostile.
Credit: A.M.T Moore, CC by 4.0 By studying these layers of remains, the scientists were able to discern the types of plants that were being collected in the warmer, humid days before the climate ...
Around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, triggering Younger Dryas climate change; this event created environmental conditions at Abu Hureyra, Syria, that ...
Depiction of a pre-Younger Dryas pit house. Numbers represent approximate locations of samples examined. Courtesy image. Before the impact, the researchers found, the inhabitants’ prehistoric diet ...
An intriguing new study asserts that an ancient Syrian settlement transitioned from hunting-gathering to agriculture due to a cataclysmic comet strike. This theory is called The Younger Dryas Impact ...
Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 1: Shock-fractured quartz grains support 12,800-year-old cosmic airburst at the Younger Dryas onset. Airbursts and Cratering Impacts, 2023; 1 (1) DOI: 10.14293/ACI.2023.0003 ...
That’s the assertion made by an international group of scientists in one of four related research papers, all appearing in the journal Science Open: Airbursts and Cratering Impacts. The papers are the ...
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