A cluster of comet fragments believed to have hit Earth nearly 13,000
years ago may have shaped the origins of human civilisation, research
suggests.
Possibly the most devastating cosmic impact since the extinction of the dinosaurs, it appears to coincide with major shifts in how human societies organized themselves, researchers say.
Their analysis backs up claims that an impact occurred prior to start
of the Neolithic period in the so-called Fertile Crescent of southwest
Asia.
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