A team led by David Meltzer of Southern Methodist University rechecked the dates from 29 archaeological sites cited as evidence for a cosmic collision associated with the Younger Dryas.
Notes on verification
Confirmed directly by the original 2014 PNAS peer-reviewed paper by Meltzer et al., and corroborated by independent secondary sources including Archaeology Magazine and subsequent review articles. [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- News - What Caused the Deep Freeze of the Younger Dryas? - Archaeology Magazine (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1401150111 (corroboration)
- https://experts.arizona.edu/en/publications/chronological-evidence-fails-to-support-claim-of-an-isochronous-w/ (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10450282/ (corroboration)