Posted on 02/02/2022 3:34:53 PM PST by BenLurkin
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have found evidence of a cosmic cataclysm 1,500 years that may be responsible for the downfall of the Hopewell Culture. The Hopewell Culture was a widely dispersed set of pre-Columbian Native American populations connected by a common network of trade routes from 100 BC to AD 500 in the Middle Woodland period.
The researchers found evidence of a cosmic airburst at 11 Hopewell archaeological sites in three states stretching across the Ohio River Valley in the United States, which rained debris down into the Earth’s atmosphere creating a fiery explosion around 1,500 years ago based on radiocarbon and typological dating.
The airburst affected an area bigger than New Jersey, setting fires across 9,200 square miles between the years AD 252 and 383. This coincides with a period when 69 near-Earth comets were observed and documented by Chinese astronomers and witnessed by Native Americans as told through their oral histories.
UC’s Advanced Materials Characterisation Centre conducted scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectrometry of the sediment samples. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry was employed at the University of Georgia’s Centre for Applied Isotope Studies. The U.S. Geological Survey provided stable carbon isotope analysis.
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This can’t be right. Whites are always to blame.
Good grief. Give it a rest.
Global warming.
Thanks for posting. I visited a Hopewell site in Ohio. A fascinating and advanced culture.
So trustworthy recollections of comets can be passed down for over 1,100 years by oral tradition (before any Europeans were in the area)? Can they prove that the tribes living there at the time of first European contact were already living in that area at the time of catastrophe?
Ohio also has a large, ancient meteor crater in the southern part of the state.
Well, they’re talking about archeological data that itself includes evidence of the strike(s).
Advanced minus the wheel, animal husbandry, the written word, and a few other things.
I don’t doubt that they can get pretty accurate estimates of the date from archaeology, or that the Chinese made records of comets appearing. But can they be sure that Native American oral traditions are genuine memories of the same events? It may be like Schliemann finding “Priam’s treasure” at Troy (now in Moscow) or the death mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (in both cases the objects he found were centuries too early to have anything to do with the leaders at the time of the Trojan War). There could be some wishful thinking involved.
The Woodland era tribes had an organized and functioning culture. To call it “advanced” is a bit romantic don’t you think?
Maybe on a astrological level.
The Hopewell were not living there at the time of European contact. The Hopewell were very good astronomers, as well, building mound complexes that were laid out according to their observations of the sky. There are also petroglyphs all across the midwest depicting comets and the like.
They did copperwork, and built mounds in fantastic geometric shapes that acted as celestial calendars.
It’s as good a theory as I’ve heard. Too confined a space for epidemic disease and no obvious archaeological signs of warfare. Widespread fires in a time where starvation was one bad harvest away, that’s worth considering.
So doesn't their oral history include the tale of how their society went to pot after this?
Or is this just supposed to be God making way for the white man?
This is interesting. Perhaps Tunguska-like events happen more often than we think.
Very interesting.
cosmic airburst must be media slang for exploding meteorite like the one recently in Russia only much bigger to totally end an entire culture - else there was more than one airburster.
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