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July 21, 2022

Ancient airburst over Ohio

Background from Smithsonian Magazine Breakdown from Archeothoughts Erudite Tusk commentor Stuart Hamish below refers accurately to this Neuheuser and Neuheuser paper responding to Tankersley et al., as “hair splitting.” I’d agree. Stuart also includes some juicy tidbits about other modern impacts that are worth sharing. Incidentally, I plan to take Stuart up on his suggestion…

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February 4, 2022

American Airburst: Comet fragments destroy ancient Midwest culture

The Washington Post Smithsonian Magazine University of Cincinnati press release Comet Research Group member Ken Tankersley and his University of Cincinnati team published an astonishing paper this week in Nature’s Science Reports providing hard data suggesting that the Native American “Hopewell Culture” witnessed and suffered terribly from a cosmic onslaught just 1700 years…

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Random Tusks

September 12, 2013

In desperate hole, Pinter grabs another shovel

Nicholas Pinter In a recent interview with NBC News anti-YDB jihadi Nick Pinter claimed that “the pro-impact literature is, at this point, fringe science being promoted by a single journal.” This is nonsense — and easily disproven. The critics of the YDB hypothesis have published 10 times in PNAS (see #1 below), whereas the YDB proponents have published only 8 times (see #2…

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September 11, 2012

Again, again, again, again -- and AGAIN!: Jupiter impacts continue to defy NASA estimates

LIVE UPDATE: See here to watch tonight for the potential scar of the impact. The Tusk focuses laser-like on impacts experienced by ancient humans. But when called for, I share items from current events that prove our thesis that the rate of cosmic collisions is far greater than generally acknowledged by science (and NASA). Yesterday the impossibly improbable happened once more on…

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July 18, 2012

The Baillie Years: Catastrophic impacts during human times

Highly recommended reading Below is a neat little overview of the work of Mike Baillie and others to define a cause for the worldwide climate downturns of: 3195 BC, 2354 BC, 1628 BC, 1159 BC, 207 BC, 44 BC, and 540 AD. It is found here on a website devoted to liberalizing Islam (not a bad cause itself). Unless a modern day Twain, Mark penned this, I think we can assume the author was using a nom…

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March 13, 2010

Guest Blog: E.P. Grodine's compilation of The First Peoples' accounts of the YD Impacts

From Man and Impacts in the Americas by E.P. Grondine. See here for Ed’s Dead Car Special! SOME OF FIRST PEOPLES’ ACCOUNTS OF THE YD IMPACTS As far as the 10,900 BCE comet impact event, many of the peoples remembered it. I included some of them in my book “Man and Impact in the Americas”, though at that time (2005) I misdated them to the end paleo at 8,350 BCE, instead of…

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Random Tusks

March 3, 2010

Great Paper: The case for significant numbers of extraterrestrial impacts through the late Holocene

I love this paper. It’s in a great journal, chock full of well-sourced, multidisciplinary information, and written by a rock-solid expert in an immensely important field: Dendrochronology. While other Dendrochronologists signed-up for the terribly political job of attempting to document slow and incremental temperature change over the ages, Mike Baillie became an expert in the…

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Podcast Popular Press

February 7, 2022

Rogan Listeners: Welcome to the Cosmic Tusk

My buddy Randall Carlson was kind to mention the Cosmic Tusk (and George Howard;) on Joe Rogan this weekend. I popped up this introductory post in case I get some extra visitors new to the Younger Dryas Impact, and they need guidance around this particular rabbit hole. Here at the Tusk we provide breaking news and in-depth information since 2010 regarding evidence from the past that cosmic…

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Cosmic Summit

November 9, 2022

Tusk Party

After 28 years of fascination, I’ve now completely lost my mind and gone all in. The Tusk is sponsoring a speculative ancient history — and hard science — gathering June 16 – 18, 2023, in Asheville, North Carolina. The Cosmic Summit 2023 will feature controversial authors, speculative internet personalities, and hard nosed Phd’s from the Comet Research Group. As…

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Other Ancient Impacts

January 23, 2022

Deep Tusk Talk

New Light on the Black Death Bonus video to lighten it up This post is for total nerds. So stop here if you have a social life. Below I’ve excerpted a lengthy debate in the comment section of the Tusk concerning the timing and cause of global shocks since the Younger Dryas, in particular the eventful downturns of the last 2022 years. Tusk buddy Jonny McAneny kicked it off in the comment…

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other ancient impacts

Ancient airburst over Ohio

American Airburst: Comet fragments destroy ancient Midwest culture

In desperate hole, Pinter grabs another shovel

Again, again, again, again -- and AGAIN!: Jupiter impacts continue to defy NASA estimates

The Baillie Years: Catastrophic impacts during human times

Guest Blog: E.P. Grodine's compilation of The First Peoples' accounts of the YD Impacts

Great Paper: The case for significant numbers of extraterrestrial impacts through the late Holocene

Rogan Listeners: Welcome to the Cosmic Tusk

Tusk Party

Deep Tusk Talk

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