The Archaeology and Anthropology of Quaternary Period Cosmic Impact

摘要: Humans and cosmic impacts have had a long intimate relationship. People live in ancient impact craters, such as at Ries Steinheim Germany, use breccias for building material. historically witnessed venerated fallen meteorites, some cases the meteorites becoming among most sacred of objects — that kept Kaaba Mecca. made tools from meteoritic iron, including certain examples named “tent,” “woman,” “dog” by Greenland Eskimos. And one more peculiar ironies linking humans impacts, people carved portion an Ohio crater into shape Great Serpent. This act not only created spectacular archaeological sites North America, but also depicted symbol used number cultures to represent comets, very source craters on Earth.