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space Here's More Evidence That Earth Got Hit by Something Huge 12,800 Years Ago
gizmodo uk ^ | 06 Oct 2019 at 6:00AM | George Dvorsky on

Posted on 10/07/2019 9:42:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Along with locations in North and South America, Greenland, Western Europe, and the Middle East, we can now add southern Africa to the list of places where scientists have uncovered evidence of a calamitous event that happened 12,800 years ago.

This evidence of a 12,800-year-old platinum spike in Africa is the first to be found on the continent, and it’s yet further evidence in support of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis.

According to this theory, either a comet or asteroid struck Earth during the Pleistocene, triggering an impact winter that saw temperatures plummet around the globe. The associated loss of plant life lead to the extinction of many large animal species, along with possible disruptions to human populations around the world.

Indeed, the time of the alleged impact coincides with the disappearance of many animal species around the planet. Africa was no exception, as the Young Dryas period (12,800 to 11,500 years ago) was when several species, including giant buffalos, zebras, and wildebeest, went extinct. At the same time, there’s evidence from this period that human populations might have also suffered. The Clovis people of North America, for example, were suddenly producing fewer stone tools during this period, and a similar drop in stone tool production has been documented among the Robberg culture of southern Africa.

It’s important to point out that the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis is a highly controversial idea, given the lack of evidence. Critics have said an “an age discrepancy” exists “between different sites where proposed impact markers have been found, and that much of the evidence, such as magnetic microspherules, nanodiamonds, shocked quartz, and other minerals, are ambiguous in nature and open to interpretation. It also doesn’t help that an associated impact crater hasn’t been linked to the supposed event.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: africa; archaeology; archeology; astronomy; catastrophism; clovisimpact; extinction; giantbuffaloes; giantwildebeest; giantzebra; godsgravesglyphs; impact; megafauna; platinum; pleistocene; robbergculture; science; southernafrica; wonderkrater; youngdryas; youngerdryas
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To: Moonman62; BenLurkin; All

Perhaps what was meant was giant forms of the buffalos, zebras, and wildebeest. Europe had the giant cattle, the Orauchs (sp?), that has gone extinct, the giant cave bear, dire wolves and deer all gone.


101 posted on 10/07/2019 7:27:13 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Openurmind
There are some good videos about this and they make a very good argument. There is something very important being ignored on purpose.

I think it's just the natural tendency of humans to cling to whatever paradigm they've been indoctrinated into. That brings to mind an old quote: "Science advances one funeral at a time."

Was it Max Planck who said it?

102 posted on 10/07/2019 7:32:07 PM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Openurmind; dsrtsage; pepsionice; SunkenCiv; BenLurkin; All

I have seen examples of cave art from 10 or 11 kya. It is far inferior to the quality of cave art from 20 and 30 kya in the French caves.


103 posted on 10/07/2019 7:32:39 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Windflier

I think it was our own Sunken Civ... lol

I have heard it many times but never was sure who said it first. :)


104 posted on 10/07/2019 7:36:23 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: gleeaikin

That is a fact, I have made that same point myself many times.


105 posted on 10/07/2019 7:37:22 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: gleeaikin

The cave art discussion is always an interesting one. I agree.

But part of this landscape is the fact that society has ‘rebooted’ on numerous occasions (because of continuing meteor strikes on the Earth). And eventually, another catastrophic event will occur, and we will reboot again.

Adding to the discussion....this last strike (12,900 years ago) now brings out the discussion item that maybe more than 75-percent of the animal species at the time were wiped out. So you look around the wonder about things.

How did man survive this period? It’s not fully explained yet. I suspect that DNA will eventually piece together something that will give us more insight.


106 posted on 10/07/2019 7:42:25 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Windflier; Openurmind; gleeaikin
I think you're right, Max Planck.

107 posted on 10/07/2019 7:52:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin; gleeaikin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

108 posted on 10/07/2019 7:52:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Lol, Well I tried to give you credit for it... I think I have seen you use it a few times here and there. :)


109 posted on 10/07/2019 7:54:51 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind
"David Wilcock and Brien Forrester both talk about evidence of possible solar/cosmic events based on findings in South America and other locations around the world."

Some of Foerster's videos show granite that looks absolutely fried. There are some large granite pillars and sculptures in Tanis, Egypt that look corroded, like acid had been thrown on them. It doesn't look like weathering to me, but I have no idea what could have caused that kind of damage to granite.

110 posted on 10/07/2019 8:30:28 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: Openurmind
Nothing livens a conversation like a Max Planck quote. ;^)

111 posted on 10/07/2019 8:50:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: pepsionice; SunkenCiv; All

Perhaps 75% of the living creatures might have been killed, but I doubt if very many species were eliminated. That 75% figure might be accurate for the Yucatan meteor 65mya, or 35% for the Chesapeake Meteor 34mya. But the species extinction seems to have been more for the large animals, rather than all the animals 12,900kya.


112 posted on 10/07/2019 11:12:55 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Flag_This

Radiation maybe?


113 posted on 10/08/2019 7:43:37 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: BenLurkin

What killed the Clovis people was the result of being bombarded for over 10 years with Taurid material some rocks were over one mile in diameter. The ‘shower’ continued with decreasing intensity for the next 100 years.

The resulting impact splatter - huge ice chunks falling from 10s of thousands of feet impacting the ground and shattering like billions of ice knives shredding everything in their paths - vegetation, animals, people. The good news is these huge quantities of water extinguished the fire storms that had been raging across the continent for years from the initial impacts. North America south of the Ice Sheet was essentially fried. There is archeological, paleontological, geological (and other disciplines) evidence for all of this. Metal deposits just add to the evidence.

See the later half of Graham Hancock’s “America Before”.


114 posted on 10/08/2019 3:04:27 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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