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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 8:17 pm
by Beagle
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nati ... 73177.html
COLUMBIA, S.C. – For the second time in less than a decade, a South Carolina river bluff holds evidence pointing to a theory with history-rewriting potential.
Microscopic soil particles from the Topper site near Allendale might hold a tiny key to a big theory: that comet-caused explosions wiped out the mammoths and mastodons, prompted the last ice age and decimated the first human culture in North America about 12,900 years ago.
The comet theory first began generating a buzz at an international meeting of geophysicists in Mexico in May. The findings were published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They’re about to go mainstream, with a National Geographic Channel segment today. The History Channel will film for a future show at Topper this week.
More news from Topper about the comet theory.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:19 am
by kbs2244
"They are about to go mainstream." ?????
So,Topper is not only pre-Clovis but also now pro-Comet?
Good quote from Goodyear, "It's a pretty wild theory. I am glad I am not doing this one."
I guess he feels he has his full with pre-Clovis.
Malawi Lake Drilling Project
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:29 pm
by Mayonaze
It would be interesting to see if the cores retrieved from Malawi Lake can confirm the suspected 12,900 ybp comet event. They apparently go back as much as 1.5MY.
http://malawidrilling.syr.edu/
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:34 pm
by kbs2244
Good idea.
It is only 1/3 of the Earth away, but what is that distance to a cosmic traveler?
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:19 pm
by MichelleH
Post to move topic temporarily to the top.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:42 pm
by Minimalist
Topper is significant for other reasons, too: Evidence from the site, published late last year, also supports the idea that a comet exploded over the Great Lakes 12,900 years ago, scorching the entire Eastern Seaboard through massive wildfires that would have left Columbia nothing but ash and cinder and which led to the extinction of the woolly mammoth and displaced the entire Clovis population.
Displaced or decimated?
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:40 pm
by Beagle
Thank you both for re-activating this thread. I think there will be more news coming from Topper.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:30 am
by Digit
Displaced or decimated?
If it 'displaced' them that means one of two things.
1 Some survived.
2 They must have been much more widespread than I have understood to be the case.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:15 am
by Minimalist
If the comet theory is real it would have done much more than kill 1 in 10 (decimatio)....the shock wave and aftermath would have killed more like 999 out of 1000. They'd have had no warning, no cover, no food storage sites, no water and the animals they relied on would have been blasted by the same event.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:09 am
by Digit
Exactly Min. Which leaves us with
1 a non-event
2 one that was not that bad and therefore almost certainly didn't wipe out the mega-fuana
3 the 'Topper' people lived in a much greater area than that which was blasted.
See! I'm getting to be as logical as you!
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:47 am
by Minimalist
4. The blast was as bad as claimed and virtually wiped out whoever was living in North America leaving it nearly unoccupied for the later wave of migrants from Asia.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:31 am
by Digit
5 Missed that point!
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 5:39 pm
by kbs2244
So:
Clovis is first!
(After the big hit?)
What is the time frame between them?