[blam]

Bump.

[sawsalimb]

Thanks-had never heard of this one. Also,regarding your earlier thread on meteor impacts causing the fall of civilizations,I have no trouble at all finding this plausible. An impact wouldn't even have to be that big(in relative terms) to wipe out a culture that was based on human labor and animal transport. Evacuation would have been undreamed of,and even if you survived the initial impact,if the devastated area was more than a few hundred miles in diameter,scraping together enough food to sustain yourself and finding some way to transport it to another location would be next to impossible for more than a tiny number of people.