Posted on 07/25/2024 7:13:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
A huge asteroid may have hit the Earth 12,800 years ago causing global climate change and extinction, according to new evidence found in South Africa.
Scientists analysed ancient soil at a site called Wonderkrater and found high levels of platinum - which they say supports the The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis that a disintegrating meteor hit Earth and caused a mini ice age.
The resulting ice age is believed by many scientists to have wiped out dozens of mammals species including the Mammoth and giant wildebeest and decimated the human population.
Scientists believe 'platinum spikes' found in ancient soil samples across the world are evidence of the meteor fragments that crashed into Earth.
Meteorites are rich in platinum and the Wonderkrater site in the Limpopo Province, north of Pretoria in South Africa adds to almost 30 other platinum spikes found worldwide, mostly in the northern hemisphere.
Until now, proof that meteoroids had impacted during that period and potentially led to a mini-ice age had only been documented across the northern hemisphere.
A total of 28 areas with high levels of platinum had been found.
The findings from the researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa partially support the theory that a meteorite crashed into earth with global consequences – along with another meteorite site discovered in Chile.
An episode of rapid cooling named the The Younger Dryas is a well documented period believed to have contributed to the extinction of many species of large animals around 12,800 years ago.
Theories previously pointed to this post-ice age cooling as a result of changes in oceanic circulation systems.
Another theory was presented by American scientists in 2007 – that the cooling was triggered by the dust fallout of an asteroid impact.
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Don’t give Klown Schwab or Killer Gates any ideas…
decimating humansReally -- one for every ten humans died?
#5 Times were pretty desperate. People finished off the megafauna.
Instead of eating meat the people back then made salad? 😆😜
No harm.
No foul.
Have a great weekend.
You said, “Which also supports their assertions that the ancient megalithic cities are older than the Younger Dryas. The Younger Dryas is when man was sent back into a stone age survival situation from once advanced civilizations.”
I agree with you 100%. I have been studying this stuff since the late 1970s.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story!
Good stuff. I really like being on this list. Thanks,SC
My pleasure.
“I have been studying this stuff since the late 1970s.”
Oh man... Me too. There are just too many questions that the establishment cannot answer. And at some point Occam’s Razor applies without question. The higher technology buried under newer lower technology is about as obvious as it can get.
It is Settled Science that the last Ice Age was caused by the Neanderthals using fire. There were no governments at the time to regulate them so it led to an Ice Age
And we care why?
The Younger Dryas re-installed the receding Ice Age for another millennium or so.
Black Mat underlies the Sharm Al Sheikh region of Iraq and separates two phases if development toward civilization there.
Probably not. The clearer videos and films show the likelihood that our two legged neighbors are more likely Pongids rather than Humans.
And this is why in Russia they have found frozen mammoths with fresh undigested buttercup flowers in their stomachs.
Where is Art Bell when we need him?
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