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The researchers concluded that the ancient people of Clovis, who inhabited the territory of modern America, died in the fall of meteorites. The main evidence in favor of this theory are the traces of platinum, associated with the specified event.
Recall the ancient Clovis people disappeared about 13,000 years ago. Around the same time with the face of the earth are gone more than three dozen large animals. Events took place during the Younger Dryas.
Named time in the history of the ancient world was characterized by a sharp cold snap, which lasted about 1,400 years, and the causes of which remain unknown.
Researchers have put forward different versions of what happened. On one of them it is that the cause of the extinction of humans and animals fall of a large meteorite. But then it is not clear where a space object and the crater, which was supposed to stay where it falls. Only traces of platinum were found in a layer of earth.
Scientists believe that if the cause of the Younger Dryas was a meteorite, then most likely, it is a rain of small meteorites, and not fall a single large object.
Meteor rain could throw into the atmosphere large amounts of dust and lead to a sharp cooling.
Earlier it was reported that Russia plans to create a "Bank of the consequences of" the fall of meteorites - the information system that would allow to calculate the consequences of the fall of the celestial bodies to the Earth.
Source: runews24.ru
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