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Re: Bronze Age Catastrophes
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- Subject: Re: Bronze Age Catastrophes
- From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman@usgs.gov>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 08:34:54 -0500
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At 10:06 AM 11/28/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 07:27:29 -0800 (PST) "E. Grondine"
> wrote:
>
>> Benny -
>> While you mentioned the re-dating of the Argentine impact site in
>> our conversations, I was surprised to read that 10 impact sites have
>> been dated as occuring since the Ice Age, and that 7 of the impacts
>> occured during the Bronze Age. Can you identify these impact sites for
>> this list before the Oxford publication?
>
>
>RECENT IMPACT CRATERS > 10,000 BP
>
>Mache (Russia) c. 7,000 BP (date: Shoemaker/Grieve)
>Wabar (Saudi Arabia) c. 6,000 BP (date: Shoemaker/Grieve)
>Henbury (Australia) c. 5,000 BP (date: Shoemaker/Grieve)
>Boxhole (Australia) c. 5,000 BP (date: Shoemaker/Grieve)
>Campo del Cielo (Argentina) c. 4,000 BP (date: Shoemaker/Grieve)
>Rio Cuarto (Argentina) c. 4,000 BP (date: P. Brown)
>Kaalijarvi (Estland) c. 4,000 BP (date: Shoemaker/Grieve)
>
>These are rather tentative dates. Yet they indicate that we might be
>dealing with certain peaks of meteoric activity rather than random
>impact events.
>
>Benny J Peiser
>
There is growing evidence (in press by Wynn & Shoemaker) that Wabar
is very recent, perhaps 19th Century AD. I tend to believe this more
that the older date.
jeff grossman
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