Death from above? Fireball may have destroyed ancient Syrian village

Live Science ^ | 20 June 2020 | Nola Taylor Redd

[BenLurkin]

13,000 years ago, something very bad seems to have occurred, leaving a layer of carbon suggesting dramatic fires. But for much of the last decade, scientists inspecting the remnants of the village have debated what happened, unable to decide whether the carbon formed during an airburst or during more mundane fires among the thatched huts.

So Moore decided to reexamine the glass in more detail. His analysis of the glass composition matched a 2012 finding claiming an airburst had destroyed Abu Hureyra, suggesting that the villagers' bucolic lifestyle ended suddenly when one or more fragments from a passing comet exploded in the air nearby.

Moore and his colleagues heated fragments of the glass in a laboratory furnace until they had fully melted, which occurred at 2,400 F (1,300 C), establishing a lower limit for the temperature the spheroids had originally been exposed to. But it took higher temperatures for the quartz and other particles on the exterior to melt.

The researchers also compared the Abu Hureyra material with glass melted at other prehistoric impact sites on Earth and found many similarities. The wealth of meltglass dating to roughly the same timeframe suggests to researchers that thousands of pieces of debris shed from a comet slammed into Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago, impacting more than 40 sites across North America and Europe.

The new findings by Moore's team match a 2007 hypothesis that Earth experienced several multi-continental airbursts. Since an individual comet or asteroid large enough to cause such widespread destruction is unlikely, the researchers suspect the disparate impacts were possibly caused by cometary debris.

[SunkenCiv]

Could we *please* use a more refined term, such as "boinked", "corked", "nailed", or "banged"?

[SunkenCiv]

In that case, maybe Steve Zodiac will start protecting the Earth from bombardment soon.

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, she’s an alien so...

[sageburn]

Lol, OK, I stand corrected.

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the Clovis Impact keyword, chrono:

• Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals? [2019]
• space Here's More Evidence That Earth Got Hit by Something Huge 12,800 Years Ago [2019]
• Evidence from Chile Supports Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Hypothesis [2019]
• The Day the World Burned [2019]
• Scientists Find Possible Second Subglacial Impact Crater in Northwest Greenland [2019]
• Geoscientists Find Large Impact Crater in Greenland [2018]
• Massive crater under Greenland's ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans [2018]
• Fingerprint of ancient abrupt climate change found in Arctic [Younger Dryas] [2018]
• 12,800 Years Ago, Earth Was Struck by a Disintegrating Comet, Setting Off Global Firestorms [2018]
• Category 5 hurricanes hammered Florida 12,000 years ago, study reveals [2017]
• America's Clovis people wiped out by meteorite 12000 years ago [2017]
• Did Ancient Earth-Chilling Meteor Crash Near Quebec? [2013]
• Ice core data supports ancient space impact idea (cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago?) [2013]
• Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago [2013]
• Comet May Have Collided With Earth 13,000 Years Ago(MEXICO) [2012]
• Younger Dryas -The Rest of the Story! [2012]
• Humans Did Not Kill Off Mammoths; Comet, Climate Change Helped, Studies Show [2012]
• New evidence supporting extraterrestrial impact at the start of the Younger Dryas [2012]
• Fungi, Feces Show Comet Didn't Kill Ice Age Mammals? [2010]
• Hour-long hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze, say scientists [2010]
• Humans to Blame for Extinction? - Not Necessarily So ... [2009]
• 12,900 Years Ago: North American Comet Impact Theory Disproved [2009]
• Did a Comet Hit Earth 12,000 Years Ago? [2009]
• Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event [2009]
• Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana [2008]
• Greenland Ice Core Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End Of Last Ice Age [2008]
• Al Goodyear And The Secrets Of Ancient Americans [2008]
• Did Comets Cause Ancient American Extinctions? [2008]
• The Mystery Of Mammoth Tusks With Iron Fillings [2008]
• Great beasts peppered from space [2007]
• Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago [2007]
• Cosmic blast may have killed off megafauna Scientists say early humans doomed, too [2007]
• Research Team Says Extraterrestrial Impact To Blame For Ice Age Extinctions (More) [2007]
• NSF Press Release: Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago [2007]
• Comet Theory Collides With Clovis Research, May Explain Disappearance of Ancient People [2007]
• Climate alarmists lose another piece of evidence [2007]
• Ice Age Ends Smashingly: Did A Comet Blow Up Over Eastern Canada? (More) (Carolina Bays) [2007]
• Comet May Have Doomed Mammoths [2007]
• Oregon Researchers Involved In New Clovis-Age Impact Theory (More) [2007]
• Catastrophic Comet Chilled and Killed Ice Age Beasts (and Clovis people) [2007]
• Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen [2007]
• Did comet start deadly cold snap? [2007]
• Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times [2006]
• Early Americans faced late Pliestocene climate change [2006]
• Scientist: Comets Blasted Early Americans [2005]
• Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths? [2005]
• Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths? [2005]
• Supernova debris found on Earth [2004]
• Evidence Aquits Clovis People Of Ancient Killings, Archaeologists Say [2003]
• Going Into The Water: A Survey Of Impact Events And The Coastal Peoples Of South-East North America [2002]

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/lamentations/lamentur.html

Great fires he lit that heralded the storm. The people mourn.
And lit on either flank of furious winds the searing heat of the desert.
Like flaming heat of noon this fire scorched.

The storm ordered by Enlil in hate, the storm which wears away the country,
covered Ur like a cloth, veiled it like a linen sheet.

On that day did the storm leave the city; that city was a ruin.
O father Nanna, that town was left a ruin. The people mourn.
On that day did the storm leave the country. The people mourn.
Its people(’s corpses), not potsherds,
littered the approaches.
The walls were gaping;
the high gates, the roads,
were piled with dead.
In the wide streets, where feasting crowds (once) gathered, jumbled they lay.
In all the streets and roadways bodies lay.
In open fields that used to fill with dancers,
the people lay in heaps.

The country’s blood now filled its holes, like metal in a mold;
bodies dissolved — like butter left in the sun.

From Clay Tablets of the Olden Days
http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Curse of Agade keyword deals with a different impact and diferent time, but good idea, I may quick whip up that list.

[SunkenCiv]

Impact-related sidebar, Curse of Agade keyword, chrono:

• Strong winter dust storms may have caused the collapse of the Akkadian Empire [2019]
• How climate change caused the world's first empire to collapse [2019]
• Evidence of Sodom? Meteor blast cause of biblical destruction, say scientists [2018]
• Welcome to the Meghalayan Age - a new phase in history [2018]
• The Best Radiocarbon-dated Site in Recent Iberian Prehistory [sudden end] [2018]
• 4,000-year-old Sumerian port found in southern Iraq [2018]
• Did Egypt's Old Kingdom Die -- or Simply Fade Away? [2015]
• Have archaeologists discovered the biblical city of Sodom? [2015]
• Archaeologists Claim to Have Found Ancient City of Sodom (and Gomorrah) [2015]
• Archaeologist Believes Remains of Sodom's Fiery Destruction Have Been Found [2015]
• Archaeologists discover possible ruins of ancient Sodom in the Holy Land [2015]
• Possible site of ancient Sodom yields more finds [2015]
• Archeologists Explain Historical Climate Change 4,000 Years Ago [2015]
• Ancient megadrought entombed dodos in poisonous fecal cocktail [2015]
• New Thoughts on the Impact of Climate Change in Neolithic China [2015]
• Climate change caused empire's fall, tree rings reveal [2014]
• The Ghost Empire - Climate Change, Global Warming, Drought and Desertification [2013]
• 200-year-long drought may have killed Sumerian language [2012]
• Climate and Drought Lessons from Ancient Egypt [2012]
• Ancient Egypt was destroyed by drought, discover Scottish experts [2011]
• Ancient City Mysteriously Survived Mideast Civilization Collapse [2011]
• Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery [2008]
• Comets And Disaster In The Bronze Age [2007]
• Climate Key To Sphinx's Riddle [2007]
• Charcoal reveals wildfire history [2006]
• Jordan site may be Biblical city of Sodom [2006]
• The Roots Of Civilization Trace Back To ... Roots [2005]
• Ancestors Of Turks Came To Anatolia In 2000s BC [2004]
• Mesopotamian Climate Change (8,000 Years Ago) [2004]
• Drought That Destroyed A Civilisation [2003]
• The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined? [2003]
• Meteor Clue To End Of Middle East Civilisations [2003]
• Dawn Of American Religion Found (2,250 BC) [2003]
• An Impact Event in 3114BC? The beginning of a Turbulent Millennium. [2003]
• Evidence for Major Impact Events in the late Third Millennium BC [2002]
• The Law Code of Hammurabi. (Complete Translation) [2002]
• Comets,Meteors & Myth: New Evidence For Toppled Civilizations And Bibical Tales [2002]
• Deconstructing the Walls of Jerico [2002]
• Archaeologists Unearth 1,700 Year-Old Canal System Near Lake Okeechobee (Florida) [2002]
• Meteor Clue To End Of Middle East Civilisations [2002]
• Disaster That Struck The Ancients [2001]
• Comets, Meteors & Myth: New Evidence for Toppled Civilizations and Biblical Tales [2001]
• Slam, bang, thanks Saddam: new meteor theory [2001]

[Redcitizen]

Hooah!

[SunkenCiv]

The 536AD keyword, alpha sorted:

• Ancient Global Dimming Linked to Volcanic Eruption (The Dark Ages) [2008]
• Astronomers unravel a mystery of the Dark Ages [2004]
• Black Death Genetic Code "Built" [2011]
• Black Death may have scuppered Roman Empire [2014]
• Bubonic Plague Traced To Ancient Egypt (Black Death) [2004]
• Cause of the big plague epidemic of Middle Ages identified [2010]
• Comet smashes triggered ancient famine [ March 536 AD ] [2009]
• The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined? [2002]
• The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined? [2003]
• Did Asteroids And Comets Turn The Tides Of Civilization? [2002]
• An Empire's Epidemic (Justinian Plague) [2006]
• Giant Meteorites Slammed Earth Around A.D. 500? [2010]
• Living In The 'Bowels Of The Earth' [2008]
• Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire [2013]
• Plague Victims Discovered After 1500 Years (Justinian) [2008]
• Tale Of (King) Arthur Points To Comet Catastrophe [2006]
• Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' [2018]
• Were the Dark Ages Really Dark? [2002]
• Why Halley's Comet May Be Linked to Famine 1,500 Years Ago [2013]

[colorado tanker]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[proud American in Canada]

Wow that is very interesting!

Thanks for posting this!

Julie