Study casts doubt on mammoth-killing cosmic impact
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 13:00
in Astronomy & Space
Rock soil droplets formed by heating most likely came from Stone Age house fires and not from a disastrous cosmic impact 12,900 years ago, according to new research from the University of California, Davis. The study, of soil from Syria, is the latest to discredit the controversial theory that a cosmic impact triggered the Younger Dryas cold period.