North America was devastated by a cometary explosion as recently as 12,900 years ago, according to a bunch of geoscientists at a recent meeting. Now a palaeoanthropologist has chipped in…
Comet theory collides with Clovis research
…pointing to the apparent decline in a Clovis-style culture, known as the Redstone culture, just after the putative comet explosion. Clovis and Redstone are known, as cultural groups, by distinctive spear-points and the later Redstone points are much, much rarer than the Clovis points – about 5-to-1 in numbers. Very odd, unless the originating people group has declined.
