Random Tusks

PNAS: New evidence from Central Mexico supporting the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis

NOTE:  This post will be “stuck” to the top of the page for the time being. Related new material such as news articles and observations will be blogged subsequent to this post but will appear below. The old “Drudge Siren” is getting quite a 1st quarter work out. And from what I hear it is only the beginning. West, Kennett, Bunch and nearly a dozen new experts…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Clovis population decline at Younger Dryas?

One of the original 2007 Acapulco AGU posters: Recent evaluation by the author of the South Carolina Paleoindian point database indicates the substantial presence of a suspected Middle Paleoindian point historically known as Redstone (Cambron and Hulse, 1964; Mason, 1962; Perino, 1968; Williams and Stoltman, 1965). When compared with the known abundance of Clovis points in South Carolina, a…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question