Prehistory Decoded

Marc Young is an outstanding young archaeologist studying at Flinders University, South Australia. Like me, he has long held an interest in cosmic impacts and their effect on humanity. He created the Tusk's bibliography  which helped me to write my r eview article and create a series of YouTube videos outlining the science of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. It's great to see archaeologists are now taking this novel scenario, of fragile comet fragments that tend to burst high in the atmosphere, seriously. This scenario has long been overlooked by those in esteemed positions who hold themselves responsible for creating the story of our past. Marc recently published an excellent article for his local archaeological society's magazine that is well worth reading. Marc has also written a superb article on pseudoarchaeology , published on Graham Hancock's website. It is very highly recommended! Marc has experienced directly the dogma of University of Kansas professor J

Sodom and Gomorrah afire, by Jacob de Wet 11, from Wikipedia James Powell , an eminent geologist, now retired, has just published an excoriating review of Mark Boslough's  criticism of the recent  Tall el-Hammam paper , one of the most widely read scientific papers of the last decade. This paper argues that a cosmic impact destroyed Tall el-Hammam circa 1650 BCE. This event might have been remembered in Biblical terms as the destruction of Sodom. Rather than critiquing this paper in the usual way through publishing a peer-reviewed rebuttal, Mark instead published his ad-hominem-laden review in the Skeptical Enquirer, a magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Enquiry (CSI) (oddly, it has the tagline "The Magazine for Science and Reason"). Much of his article was a targeted attack against a member of the Comet Research Group, Allen West. You can see much the same kind of attack on Allen on the talk page of Wikipedia's article on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypo