The more we learn, the more we research, and the more we have the ability to study our home called the planet the more we realize what a cataclysmic past we had- they had. Time and time again the earth has been subjected to massive destructive forces that have reduced the population greatly and most probably wiped out many technological advances that we’re just now coming into and comprehending.
A recent scientific report suggests that a cataclysm (a comet) reduced the population of the earliest people to inhabit North America and triggered a 1,00+ year-long cold spell that stretched around the world.
The heat generated by the extraterrestrial impact likely melted much of a glacier that once covered the Great Lakes region, sending a massive flood down the Mississippi River.
According to the report, the cold waves of glacial runoff into the Gulf of Mexico shifted Atlantic Ocean currents, changing climate patterns throughout the world in a cooling period known as the Younger Dryas.
“A rare swarm” of comets rained over North America about 13,000 years ago, sparking fires that produced choking, leading “to the extinction of a large range of animals, including mammoths, across North America.”
Tiny diamonds found in the soil are “strong evidence” a comet exploded on or above North America nearly 13,000 years ago, leading to the extinction of dozens of mammal species, according to a study. The prehistoric humans known to have inhabited the continent at the time of the event — hunters and gatherers dubbed the Clovis culture — suffered a major decline in population in the aftermath, the scientists said.
The study was conducted by a group of eight archaeologists and geologists from the universities of Oregon and California, Northern Arizona University, Oklahoma University and DePaul University. Their findings were published Friday in the journal Nature.
The scientists, studying layers of sediment dated to 12,900 years ago at six North American locations, including one directly on top of a Clovis site in Murray Springs, Arizona. Each layer was rich in nanodiamonds, which are produced under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions created by cosmic impacts, the report said. “The nanodiamonds that we found at all six locations exist only in sediments associated with the Younger Dryas Boundary layers, not above it or below it,” said University of Oregon archaeologist Douglas Kennett. “These discoveries provide strong evidence for a cosmic impact event at approximately 12,900 years ago that would have had enormous environmental consequences for plants, animals and humans across North America.”
The other sites studied were in Bull Creek, Oklahoma; Gainey, Michigan and Topper, South Carolina, as well as Lake Hind, Manitoba; and Chobot, in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Ernie Fitzpatrick
http://www.articlesbase.com/culture-articles/comets-nanodiamonds-706714.html
Is the Maya 2012 event being discovered by Scientists?
Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event
Chicago Tribune ^-Comet may have exploded over planet, causing fires, die-offs, researchers say
A meteorite colliding with the Earth 65 million years ago is considered to be the most likely reason dinosaurs vanished from the planet. Now a team of scientists says it has found new evidence that an object from space caused a similar extinction event only 13,000 years ago.
In an article to be published Friday in the journal Science, researchers present what one author calls the "smoking bullet"—proof that an exploding comet triggered the sudden, thousand-year freeze that killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and other large mammals that used to live in North America.
Working at multiple sites across the continent, researchers found nanodiamonds—microscopic particles thought to be found on comets—in a 13,000-year-old layer of carbon-rich soil.
The authors, led by University of Oregon anthropologist Douglas Kennett, theorize that the comet exploded above the Earth’s surface, raining fragments upon North America and starting fires across the continent. That would have ushered in an abrupt global cooling and caused the "megafauna" extinction.
According to the Mayan/Olmec/Aztec calendar (the same calendar adopted by the Aztecs), the last great period of destruction occurred 13,000 years ago, when the Earth was rattled by Earthquakes,volcanic eruptions, and terrible floods: events they blamed on a cosmic calamity, and which they, and other ancient peoples, associated with the Great Serpent, which was Venus
2012 The World Ends – BrainMind.com – Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D.
Over a thousand years ago, the Mayan priests calculated the solar year at 365. … The figure of 13,000 years ago also corresponds to a date which marks the point …
brainmind.com/MeteorStorm.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-comet-webjan02,0,3624054.story
I am 60 now. This is perhaps the 20th end of the world that I have been through.
I will tell you exactly what to expect. The morning after the end of the world, the sun will come up the birds will start chirping people will get out of their beds an get ready for work. Moms will hug their Kids and everything will pretty much be like it was the day before the end of the world.
Only one thing will be different. All of the people who were talking about it as though it was real will be saying that they knew that it was not really going to happen.
The day after that there will be a new date for the end of the world predicted, and those same people will be talking about how it is real.
Love and blessings Don
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No.
There have been "end of the world" theories since the beginning of time. Remember the Y2K hysteria? Live for today.
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What website are you getting this from?
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in otherwords, it’s BULL****
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I’m not going to read your copypasta, but no.
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Either you follow the Bible or the Mayan calendar – can’t do both.
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Haven’t you heard? 2015 is the new date going around
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amazing, i dont think it will end but i think something remarkable is about to happen that will change all of us human’s perseption about life in general.
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The Mayans weren’t around 13,000 years ago to mark that event. It could not have been a point of reference on an astrological calendar of Venetian events.
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There is no reason to believe the world will "end" all of a sudden. The whole concept makes no sense. Even if we become extinct, the world would not "end."
I am tired of listening to prophecies that make no sense at all.
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so? the fact that comets, asteroids, meteors have smashed into earth is nothing new. it will happen again.
by your logic, a squirrel sneezed in Bangor, Maine this morning, so the world’s going to end in 2012.
so the mayans were good a math. so were the egyptians. they were recording the precession of the earth’s axis, not the end of the world.
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