November 2, 2024

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A comet explosion may have started agriculture in Syria 12,800 years ago

A comet explosion may have started agriculture in Syria 12,800 years ago

A now-extinct village in northern Syria is likely the first example of a community of people who were Hit indirectly It was destroyed by a large comet that struck Earth about 12,800 years ago. The comet’s strike led to a radical shift in lifestyle from hunting to agriculture and even control of wild animals, according to a new analysis of remains excavated from the area in the 1970s.

“Based on current analyses, this would be the first example of a human settlement catastrophically affected by a cosmic impact event,” the researchers wrote in the new study.