Only 3 of the 29 archaeological sites re-examined by David Meltzer's team had dates falling within the onset of the Younger Dryas.
Notes on verification
Confirmed directly by the peer-reviewed PNAS paper's own text ('Only 3 of the 29 sites fall within the temporal window of the YD onset'), and independently corroborated by a secondary peer-reviewed article and a Sandia National Labs publication with consistent figures. [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)