Joel Kontinen
The first settlers of Abu Hureyra were hunter-gatherers who lived off the land. A terrible drought drove the people to begin cultivating grains that they had previously collected from the wild, turning them into the first known farmers, previous research has revealed.
Then, about 13,000 years ago, something very bad seems to have occurred, leaving a layer of carbon suggesting dramatic fires. But for much of the last decade, scientists inspecting the remnants of the village have debated what happened, unable to decide whether the carbon formed during an airburst or during more mundane fires among the thatched
This could have happened during the flood of Noah’s days, but secularists don’t allow it to have happened that way.
The research was published March 6 in the journal Scientific Reports
Source:
Redd, Taylor Redd. 2020. Death from above? Fireball may have destroyed ancient Syrian village. Life Science 21 June
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