[OR_Archaeology] Fwd: NOVA Special : Comet Smack - Clovis Extinction

[Davis, Loren]

For those of you who want to read more about this story, a scientific evaluation of the hypothesis has recently been published:

Surovell, Todd A., Vance T. Holliday, Joseph A. M. Gingerich, Caroline Ketron, C. Vance Haynes, Jr., Ilene Hilman,
Daniel P. Wagner, Eileen Johnson, and Philippe Claeys 2009.   An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas
extraterrestrial impact hypothesis.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(43):18155-18158.

Best regards,

Loren Davis


On 2/24/10 9:24 AM, "Susan White" <susan.white at state.or.us> wrote:

For you PBS Nova program fans--

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>>> Bronc <21stcentury at ALTAMONTKS.COM> 2/24/2010 8:55 AM >>>
On PBS tomorrow night:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/clovis/

But was the Pleistocene event as conclusive as they say?? I've heard some pretty interesting rumors about the negative quality of the evidence...

Robert



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