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>extremely controversial and as-yet unsettled Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. While the 'impact' hypothesis is certainly unsettled, there isn't much controver
by 8bitsrule 6y ago
>extremely controversial and as-yet unsettled Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis.
While the 'impact' hypothesis is certainly unsettled, there isn't much controversy in the hard sciences. The great majority of over 200 papers published in the last dozen years certainly establishes the presence and dating of fallout from major (probably multiple) extra-terrestrial sources in that era. That evidence is in accordance with multiple Greenland ice-cores.
Whatever the purpose of Gobekli, it's only one data point in a long and growing list of recent discoveries and observations. Human history in the early Holocene will be re-written as a result.
- AlotOfReading 6y agoYou're right that this could have been stated better. The impacts themselves are something for geologists and other scientists to discuss. Linking the YDB (quaternary extinctions, demographic bottlenecks, and possible conflagrations) to those impacts remains a combination of under-discussed and controversial in the archaeological community.
- 8bitsrule 6y agoIMO archeologists who pay attention to this stuff now (like those who've embraced lidar and radio-dating) will leave their competition in the dust.