Did an Exploding Comet Doom Early Americans?

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @08:54AM from the fire-last-time dept.

New Scientist outlines a new theory on the demise of the Clovis people in the southwest US over 10,000 years ago. A group of 25 researchers speculates that a comet exploded over ice-covered Canada 12,900 years ago and triggered a firestorm across North America that not only wiped out the Clovis people but also forced a number of large land mammals into extinciton and kicked off the Younger Dryas climate change. However, geologists are pretty conservative folks, according to the article, and some of them are not buying it.

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Did an Exploding Comet Doom Early Americans?

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