We all know about the asteroid that struck our planet around 66 million years ago and ended the dinosaurs’ time on Earth. However, according to an international team of scientists, another object may have struck our planet much more recently and caused a global shift that changed humanity’s trajectory forever.
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00:05 We all know about the asteroid that struck our planet around 66 million years ago
00:09 and ended the dinosaurs time on earth. However, according to an international
00:13 team of scientists, another object may have struck our planet much more recently
00:17 and caused a global shift that changed humanity's trajectory forever.
00:21 They say the object was a comet and it smashed into our planet only 12,800 years ago.
00:27 When that happened, it did what all large objects do when they crash down,
00:30 caused utter destruction. However, this new study also suggests the comet's impact
00:34 forced hunter-gatherers to start planting seeds as well,
00:37 meaning the cosmic event was the impetus for initiating agriculture as we know it.
00:42 With the researchers writing in their paper, quote, "These data include changes in
00:46 building architecture, diet, and the early stages of
00:49 persistent cultivation of domestic type grains and legumes." But they add their
00:53 findings also revealed the first signs of keeping animals as livestock.
00:56 And animal domestication. The researchers also note that their study uncovered
01:00 other evidence that an explosive air burst, likely caused when the comet
01:04 entered the atmosphere, destroyed a human village.
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