The Western Hemisphere. General term for the Americas following their discovery by Europeans, thus setting them in contradistinction to the Old World of Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Don't bet the farm on that. There are a lot of archaeologists out there that aren't all that sharp.
But over-all I agree that they didn't jump boundaries in the main body of the paper. They sure as heck did in the title, and that was likely calculated for sensationalism. That is a common theme among poor dead-end hypotheses being presented in archaeology.
rich wrote:Why dead end? It's still on-going and sort of looks like it may be picking up momentum too.
How will it ever lead to any demonstration of causality? In reality, it isn't even fit to be a hypothesis if you consider the current state of things. You can't even test it, which is quite convenient for them.
Hmmm - I disagree. I think you can test it with a certain amount of accuracy. Computer modelling has come a long way. You can show the known places of habitat and the possible places of habitat and from there extrapolate the damage that may have been caused. Of course that would be subject to the models tested, in that sense I agree it wouldn't be 100% accurate, but it can be made good enough to show plausibility.
i'm not lookin' for who or what made the earth - just who got me dizzy by makin it spin
I don't think enough is known about what causes a giant meteor strike might have on mammoth, much less have a good handle on the weather patterns at that time or how the biota that mammoth interacted with might be affected.
Any attempt would have to include old world mammoths as well.
But they could possibly show the affects on plants in the areas involved. It wouldn't take long for animals to die off from lack of vegetation - or water. And I'm pretty sure there's some brainkid out there that can figure even more if he set his or her mind to it.
Even if the vegetation grew back within say fifty years - that would be plenty of time for species to die off. Probably just a couple of weeks at the max. And water probably even less. Camels might live longer without water - but not that much. Birds would probably last longest, but even they would eventually die off or "fly south".
i'm not lookin' for who or what made the earth - just who got me dizzy by makin it spin
Also - different type plants need different amounts of water to be sustained. A dryspell for a given length of time would especially affect the vegetation in an area - at least for a certain period of time. May be able to offshoot the results on plants from this. Soil samples should be able to provide pollen and/or lack of it also for certain time periods.
i'm not lookin' for who or what made the earth - just who got me dizzy by makin it spin
Came across this while searching for information concerning
geological events around 800 A.D. Some interesting reading,
which I thought might be if interest for this topic.
Tunguska gives a fair idea of the blast pattern of an impact. If the trees are flattened, I wouldn't give much of a chance for the well-being of any unprotected animal.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Tankersley's finds this year were resting a few inches beneath the surface in a remote part of Shawnee Lookout, a park west of Cincinnati.
East of the city, near Newtown, Tankersley also has found copper, gold, silver and tiny diamonds as well as pieces of the Canada comet.
He found more of the same in Sheriden Cave, in Wyandot County. The metals were found in a layer of earth that includes charcoal and burnt remains of a giant beaver and pig.
Carbon dating suggests that the layer is 12,900 years old, right when the comet was supposed to have exploded.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
From Science Daily....something I have wondered about for a while. An asteroid hit, even if the blast zone did not extend further than north america would have had dire impacts on the climate through the nuclear winter scenario. This fellow is looking at the Younger Dryas as the result.
The Younger Dryas event refers to an unexpected rapid cooling of the earth that is known to have lasted about 1,300 years. It coincided with widespread extinctions of species, but, although the event itself is well-documented, scientists are still unclear of whether its impact was felt equally all across the globe.
The extent of the impact in the Southern Hemisphere is, in particular, unresolved.
University of Cincinnati Professor of Geology Tom Lowell has researched evidence of historical climate change all over the globe, including significant amounts of research south of the equator. Just this month, he has returned from a month-long expedition to Peru, where he and colleagues took samples near the Quelccaya Ice Cap.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
