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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080103-neanderthals.html Climate Change Put Big Chill on Neandertals, Study Says James Owen for National Geographic News January 3, 2008 Neandertals in western Europe were ravaged by an increasingly hostile climate rather than an invasion of modern hum...

I've been to Carmel. Californians have always been hard to classify.

More on the Tunguska "crater discovery". Interesting links to sonar and ground penetrating radar images.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0 ... rater.html

OK. I'll admit it. I'm a shill for the possible effects of meteor/asteroid impacts on the evolution of life in general and I'm really curious about the effect such events may have had on human history. We're only just starting to appreciate the influence of impacts because they happen so infrequentl...

I offer this only as an example of the other possible explanations that are floating around. I know nothing about the author.

http://www.mondovista.com/tesla.tunguska.html

In short, it says that Nikolas Tesla did it with his "death ray". How does the phrase go? Deus ex Machina?

http://www.umich.edu/~lowbrows/reflections/1998/bfriberg.1.html On March 23, 1989, an asteroid about a half-mile wide crossed the Earth’s orbit about 400,000 miles from Earth. If the Earth had been in that same spot a mere six hours earlier, a collision would have occurred. On January 17, 1991, an a...

It would be interesting to study the effect that such a strike on Mars would have on the human psyche (and on NASA's budget). Mars is more earthlike than Jupiter. Its starting to get "personal".

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/kilicores.htm “AFRICAN ICE CORE ANALYSIS REVEALS CATASTROPHIC DROUGHTS, SHRINKING ICE FIELDS AND CIVILIZATION SHIFTS COLUMBUS, Ohio – A detailed analysis of six cores retrieved from the rapidly shrinking ice fields atop Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro shows that thos...

Ishtar; You've seen this?

http://genforum.genealogy.com/evans/

Try a search on "UK" - you might come up with something.

One of my GGrandmothers was an Evans.

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/ "Welcome to the Earth Impact Effects Program: an easy-to-use, interactive web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on Earth. This program will estimate the ejecta distribution, ground shaking, atmospheric blast wave, ...

Double post (sorry!)

Ishtar: The article was written in 2001. Seems like they should be able to offer more information by now. The UK is just a small place, everybody knows everybody, right? ;-} Maybe you could just stick your head in and ask Dr Benny Peiser "who lectures on the effects of meteor impacts at John Mo...

The sky is falling ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/04/wmet04.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/04/ixhomef.html%255C By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 9:45pm GMT 03/11/2001 SCIENTISTS have found the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in t...

I dont think they have any confirmed strikes on Antarctica yet - at least none that are consistent with their criteria.

http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/

Some time ago I asked if they were aware of the reported Antarctic impact site. They said they were, but that the site had not been "confirmed" yet.