Comet Airburst Initiated Transition to Agriculture 12,800 Years Ago, Scientists Say

Science News ^ | October 16, 2023 | News Staff

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The settlement occupants left an abundant and continuous record of seeds, legumes and other foods...

By studying these archaeological layers, Professor Kennett and colleagues were able to discern the types of plants that were being collected in the warmer, humid days before the climate changed and in the cooler, drier days after the onset of what we know now as the Younger Dryas cool period.

Before the impact, the inhabitants' prehistoric diet involved wild legumes and wild-type grains, and small but significant amounts of wild fruits and berries.

In the layers corresponding to the time after cooling, fruits and berries disappeared and their diet shifted toward more domestic-type grains and lentils, as the people experimented with early cultivation methods...

Drought-resistant plants, both edible and inedible, become more prominent in the record as well, reflecting a drier climate that followed the sudden impact winter at the onset of the Younger Dryas.

The evidence also indicates a significant drop in the area's population, and changes in the settlement's architecture to reflect a more agrarian lifestyle, including the initial penning of livestock and other markers of animal domestication.

To be clear, agriculture eventually arose in several places on Earth in the Neolithic, but it arose first in the Levant (present-day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and parts of Turkey) initiated by the severe climate conditions that followed the impact.

In the 12,800-year-old layers corresponding to the shift between hunting and gathering and agriculture, the record at Abu Hureyra shows evidence of massive burning.

The evidence includes a carbon-rich 'black mat' layer with high concentrations of platinum, nanodiamonds and tiny metallic spherules that could only have been formed under extremely high temperatures.

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Image credit: Jennifer Rice, Comet Research Group.

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[ckilmer]

they also find that black mat layer in the ruins of an ancient city north of galilee identified as sodom dating to about 1800 bc. the city was subsequently uninhabited for about 600 years.

the suggestion is that sodom was hit by a smaller asteroid. so the damage was more local

[know.your.why]

Well....glad thats settled. Check please!

[bitt]

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[BenLurkin]

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, one of these is mine, I just couldn't seem to turn it up. Ah well. These findings are a few years old. Some of the same diggers also claim to have found yet another site of Sodom / Gomorrah. The rest of the Abu Hurr, uh, however it's spelled, keyword, sorted:

• A prehistoric cosmic airburst preceded the advent of agriculture in the Levant [10/06/2023]
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• Death from above? Fireball may have destroyed ancient Syrian village [06/21/2020]
• Ancient human settlement was obliterated by a COMET that exploded in Earth's atmosphere and sent fragments of molten glass 'hot enough to melt cars' flying to the ground 12,800 years ago [03/10/2020]

[SunkenCiv]

Two of those topics are yours, btw.

[SunkenCiv]

https://freerepublic.com/tag/tallelhammam/index

[jjotto]

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-sites/where-is-sodom/

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Possibly what brought the Ice Age to an end? And the world is still warming!

[Right Brother]

Incredibly, all these cataclysmic events do not destroy the earth. What are the odds? Especially if this is all by random chance, right?

[Phoenix8]

Large meteorites and Volcanic eruptions are rare but seem to have great significance. Something exciting to read about but probably terrifying to live through.

[Monkey Face]

You got that right!!

[SunkenCiv]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4206159/posts

[G Larry]

My resources say the transition was rather immediate and void of any celestial influence.

Genesis 3:17-19
17 And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

AND

Genesis 4:1-3
Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.”
2 Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.
3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground

[NWFree]

Because Dr Fauci was there and wrote a book about it

[bunkerhill7]

So a comet impact turned us from hunters into farmers?
That`s the stupidest thing I ever heard in all my borned days.