Datestamp: World’s oldest monument memorializes Younger Dryas comet impact

April 21, 2017

Response from Gobekli Tepe dig and back at you from Edinburg What DID that fox say? Times of London YouTube Ok, I’ve finally found a little time to provide some commentary after posting the Gobekli Tepe \ YD Comet paper last week. I have more substantive comments underway (believe it or not) but first…

Comet Research Group in Nature: Widespread Platinum across continent at Younger Dryas

March 9, 2017

Wonderful Supplementary Information for the paper below…

Recent papers critical of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: Daulton and Scott

February 22, 2017

I have provided some counter points below to the arguments made in the recent publications from Daulton and Scott (regular critics). However, I was particularly disturbed to see that the papers failed to include very significant confirmations of our work, for instance Adronikov 2016. Unlike Tian (2011) and Bement 2014. Daulton claims failure…

Comet Research Group responds to Robert Schoch

December 13, 2016

Robert Schoch Dr. Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., of Boston University, is a thought provoking scientist with an open-minded approach to new ideas. Unfortunately his interest in disruptive theories has never extended itself to the Younger Dryas Boundary hypothesis, as he details on his webpage in a critique titled “Controversies Concerning the End ofthe Last Ice Age.”…

Grab an oar: Comet Research Group crowd appeal goes live on Indiegogo

November 14, 2016

Hey folks, I will make this short and expand and update in the future. The newly formed Comet Research Group crowd appeal for funding ancient impact research is on the air — and your help is desperately needed. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the Tusk….

Comet Research Group crowdfunding appeal reschedules launch to Monday, November 14th: Graham Hancock to appear on Joe Rogan podcast Tuesday the 15th

November 11, 2016

The Comet Research Group crowdfunding effort announced on the Tusk last month, and originally scheduled for November 1st, was pushed back in the interest of avoiding the pending election hysteria. The new date of Monday, November 14th also helps place the launch at a more promising time, a day before a key appearance of author…

Big News: Crowdfunding appeal coming November 1st [Now 14th!] for new ‘Comet Research Group’

October 5, 2016

The Tusk has an exciting announcement. For many months a project has been underway to develop a crowdfunding campaign to finance a significant and continuing expansion of research into the YDB impact and related phenomena. Drs. Allen West, Ted Bunch, Chris Moore and I are directing the effort, which launches on November 1 and will…

A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors & Comets: In Sundry Places and Different Times: More Particularly for the Space of 250 Years: Together with Some of Their Most Remarkable Effects on Animal (Especially Human) Bodies

September 29, 2016

Search “Comet” in the box below…

Awkward but promising: Compromise paper from Andronikov & Van Hoesel

September 10, 2016

The presence of a possible meteoritic component in the same sediments suggests that an ET event occurred at approximately the same time. However, whether the presence of the meteoritic component is due to a local meteorite impact/airburst or to a much stronger event remains unclear. Anyway, it is quite possible that some short and dramatic…

Close to home

September 8, 2016

Regular readers of the Tusk know we don’t dwell here on modern day cosmic interactions. But that was yesterday. Today a best buddy and long-time co-worker, Worth Creech, came into my office shocked to report….he had actually seen…..a daytime fireball in Raleigh! Well, I’ll bee. The Tar Heel State had an encounter with…

B&W

August 4, 2016

Multi-ringed depressions beneath Hudson Bay imitate impact craters

August 1, 2016

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UofA: Short, enigmatic event causes geochemical changes at start of Younger Dryas

July 19, 2016

Unfiltered More independent confirmation of the Younger Dryas Boundary event….

Here They Go Again: Holliday and Surovell use dozer not trowel

July 13, 2016

Surovell-Holliday 2012 Tusk commentary Vance Holliday and Todd Surovell published a paper in PLOS One this week. It is unsurprising but again disappointing that these hacks continue their jihad on the YDB hypothesis based on negligent analysis. Particular galling is their wanton substitution of an optical microscope for an electron microscope. I say “wanton”…

TEDx: Graham Hancock on Lost Civilizations and the Younger Dryas Boundary Impact

July 7, 2016

Comets and the Early Christian Mosaics of Ravenna

June 28, 2016

Hat Tip to Malaga Bay Q-Mag…

Whatapaper: Baillie and McAneney on the Bronze Age Cosmic Collapse

May 14, 2016

Mandelkehr Kobres Below is a superbly written exploration of the climate collapse(s) circa. 2200 B.C. by occasional Tusk commentor Jonny McAneney and his mentor, long-time Tusk favorite Mike Baillie. I don’t know how I missed this paper, but I do know how I found it. Jonny thoughtfully posted the public link back in December…

University of Arizona confirms spherule concentration in lower YDB sediments at famed Clovis site Blackwater Draw

February 26, 2016

Blackwater Draw The presence of a high number of the hollow magnetic microspherules can be used for identification of the LYDB. Although some scientists failed to find any microspherules at all along the LYDB in the BWD-1 site (Surovell et al. 2009), others reported strongly elevated concentrations of the magnetic microspherules here (Firestone et al. 2007; LeCompte et…

Tusk Expedition to Biblical Sodom: Tall el-Hammam

February 24, 2016

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The Younger Dryas Boundary at the Cradle of Agriculture: Abu Hureyra

Restored from the library fire 1/1/20

January 26, 2016

Molleson, Theya. “The Ordinary Neolithic People of Abu Hureyra.” Fresh Fields and Pastures New: Papers Presented in Honor of Andrew MT Moore (2016): 187: …

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Datestamp: World’s oldest monument memorializes Younger Dryas comet impact

Comet Research Group in Nature: Widespread Platinum across continent at Younger Dryas

Recent papers critical of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: Daulton and Scott

Comet Research Group responds to Robert Schoch

Grab an oar: Comet Research Group crowd appeal goes live on Indiegogo

Comet Research Group crowdfunding appeal reschedules launch to Monday, November 14th: Graham Hancock to appear on Joe Rogan podcast Tuesday the 15th

Big News: Crowdfunding appeal coming November 1st [Now 14th!] for new ‘Comet Research Group’

A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors & Comets: In Sundry Places and Different Times: More Particularly for the Space of 250 Years: Together with Some of Their Most Remarkable Effects on Animal (Especially Human) Bodies

Awkward but promising: Compromise paper from Andronikov & Van Hoesel

Close to home

B&W

Multi-ringed depressions beneath Hudson Bay imitate impact craters

UofA: Short, enigmatic event causes geochemical changes at start of Younger Dryas

Here They Go Again: Holliday and Surovell use dozer not trowel

TEDx: Graham Hancock on Lost Civilizations and the Younger Dryas Boundary Impact

Comets and the Early Christian Mosaics of Ravenna

Whatapaper: Baillie and McAneney on the Bronze Age Cosmic Collapse

University of Arizona confirms spherule concentration in lower YDB sediments at famed Clovis site Blackwater Draw

Tusk Expedition to Biblical Sodom: Tall el-Hammam

The Younger Dryas Boundary at the Cradle of Agriculture: Abu Hureyra

Restored from the library fire 1/1/20

YDIH Bibliography

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