[BenLurkin]

ping

[imabadboy99]

This can’t be right. Whites are always to blame.

[NeverTyranny]

Thanks for posting. I visited a Hopewell site in Ohio. A fascinating and advanced culture.

[Verginius Rufus]

So trustworthy recollections of comets can be passed down for over 1,100 years by oral tradition (before any Europeans were in the area)? Can they prove that the tribes living there at the time of first European contact were already living in that area at the time of catastrophe?

[Billthedrill]

It’s as good a theory as I’ve heard. Too confined a space for epidemic disease and no obvious archaeological signs of warfare. Widespread fires in a time where starvation was one bad harvest away, that’s worth considering.

[fruser1]

"and witnessed by Native Americans as told through their oral histories"

So doesn't their oral history include the tale of how their society went to pot after this?

Or is this just supposed to be God making way for the white man?

[GingisK]

This is interesting. Perhaps Tunguska-like events happen more often than we think.

[married21]

Very interesting.

[PIF]

cosmic airburst must be media slang for exploding meteorite like the one recently in Russia only much bigger to totally end an entire culture - else there was more than one airburster.

[Reily]

“....cosmic airburst ....”

That makes no sense !

[wafflehouse]

Retraction: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-41237-8