The Younger Dryas (YD), arguably the most widely studied millennial-scale extreme climate event, was characterized by diverse hydroclimate shifts globally and severe cooling at high …
Abstract Firestone et al., 2007, PNAS 104 (41): 16,016–16,021, proposed that a major cosmic impact, circa 10,835 cal. BCE, triggered the Younger Dryas (YD) climate shift along …
" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia. They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …
TE Bunch, MA LeCompte, AV Adedeji, JH Wittke… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
We present evidence that in~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the …
The last glacial period is characterized by a number of millennial climate events that have been identified in both Greenland and Antarctic ice cores and that are abrupt in Greenland …
M Pino, AM Abarzúa, G Astorga, A Martel-Cea… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Younger Dryas (YD) impact hypothesis posits that fragments of a large, disintegrating asteroid/comet struck North America, South America, Europe, and western …
WS Wolbach, JP Ballard, PA Mayewski… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract The Younger Dryas boundary (YDB) cosmic-impact hypothesis is based on considerable evidence that Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating≥ 100-km …
WS Wolbach, JP Ballard, PA Mayewski… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Part 1 of this study investigated evidence of biomass burning in global ice records, and here we continue to test the hypothesis that an impact event at the Younger Dryas boundary …
In this study we present evidence of braided plant fibres and basketry imprints on clay recovered from Coves de Santa Maira, a Palaeolithic-Mesolithic cave site located in the …