Evidence for Major Impact Events in the late Third Millennium BC

Evidence of Astronomical Aspects of Mankind's Past and Recent Climate Homepage ^ | FR Post 9-4-2 | Timo Niroma

[blam]

"I'll give it a look and then see if I can get some backup from something else. I have been suspicious of dating since they got the Thera explosion date wrong by 400 years on the short side."

The Thera explosion was in 1628BC, same time as the Exodus. Thera was their "Staff by day, torch by night."

[breakem]

I just read a book "In the Wake of the Plaque." Small pox throughout the Roman empire 240-250. Don't know if that's related.

[Interesting Times]

Apparently, figuring out how to fend off large rocks is a prerequisite for a species to expand beyond its planet of origin...

[Little Bill]

If you remember when they started digging around on Thera the expert opinion was that the explosion occured around 1200 +/- and destroyed both mainland Greed and Minoan civilizations.

Tree rings and Ice Cores proved that wrong, when on for quite a while if I remember right, 10/15 years.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Naspino]

This is why the whole USA is changing the climate crowd needs to crawl back into their hole. A single event like this or a super volcano will do more damage to the world than the US has or could ever do. In the blink of an eye.

[Beach_Babe]

bump to read tomorrow

[blam]

"Tree rings and Ice Cores proved that wrong, when on for quite a while if I remember right, 10/15 years."

Yup. FReeper LostTribe and I still occassionally fuss about the 1628BC date for Exodus.

[Little Bill]

Years ago I read a book called "Plagues and Peoples". one of the things that the author pointed out was that a healthy population recovers from a plague, stuff like food, warm clothing, and enought fuel contributes to the health of a population.

One of the reasons that the population of Europe was hit so hard by the Black Plague was that is was not healthy, there was a shortage of most of the above. Then after the plague hit the Little Ice age set in which reduced the area under cultivation, took centuries to recover.

The western Roman Empire had a problem with a shrinking population and a reduction of cultivated land starting in about 200, plague (?) they can't find enough bodies to match the stories. Samething with the plague in Justinians' time (532), no bones. As Blam speculated there is evidence of and impact of some sort around that time.

[Little Bill]

Could be right the ejecta path ended up in SE Asia Minor and Thera is North East of Crete.

[breakem]

It was the 1150s-1200s before the europeans had enough food and heat to sustain large populations. Weather was warm and more people eating beef. Some of those claimed by the plague may have actually been anthrax (In The Wake of the Plague). As for the Romans 240-250 AD small pox

400-425 AD Gohnerrhea (sp).

750 AD The plague

[farmfriend]

ping

[Little Bill]

It was the 1150s-1200s before the europeans had enough food and heat to sustain large populations.

Around there I woulds imagine. In the Domesday Book the town that my family originated in had a population of 250, that was in 1068, in 1279 the population was about 1500 with about the same area.

I do think though that small pox was a symptom of decline reather than a cause.

[Kozak]

Yup. ...and can you imagine what the survivors will write into the religious books? (Let's hope it hits the middle east again, hee, hee)

And if God forbid the impact is on us, what will the Moslems say about how we were smited by Allah?

[NorseWood]

bump for reading tomorrow

[Carry_Okie]

Indexing.

Many thanks. It's pretty nifty schtuffe all righty.

The question is, is there anything we can do about it? The pattern says we had better get cracking.

[Mike Darancette]

Apparently, figuring out how to fend off large rocks is a prerequisite for a species to expand beyond its planet of origin...

Developing a species that MIGHT be capable of protecting the Earth from big nasty rocks is the Earth's survival strategy.

[Carry_Okie]

YFI :-)

[Bernard Marx]

Bookmark bump.

[altair]

That was an interesting link. Thanks.