- An asteroid or comet completely wiped out the ancient human settlement of Abu Hureyra.
- The impact is likely part of a larger cosmic impact event that triggered the rapid cooling of Earth.
- The research was published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.
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Science fiction disaster flicks have “taught” us that if the asteroid apocalypse comes raining down from above, it will result in utter devastation from which humanity may never recover. For now, we can rest easy knowing that space agencies around the world are constantly on the lookout for dangerous space rocks, but ancient humans didn’t have that same luxury.
One particularly unlucky group of our nomadic ancestors watched, thousands of years ago, as their homes and way of life were wiped out by an asteroid fragment that, to them, would have seemed to come out of absolutely nowhere.
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