Extraterrestrial Object 12,800 Years Ago Changed Humanity

12,800 years ago, an extraterrestrial "attacker" caused a terrible explosion that destroyed the ancient village of Abu Hureyra in Syria, an event that created a huge turning point in human history.

Pursuing clues related to the hypothesis that a cosmic impact caused the Younger Dryas (YD) , a period when Earth experienced a sudden and catastrophic ice age, an international team of scientists has found a "treasure" at the Abu Hureyra site in Syria.

According to Science Alert, the Abu Hureyra sediment layers reveal a lot of elements, including plants belonging to the last days of Earth's warmth and the days when ice began to spread.

A catastrophic comet explosion temporarily changed Earth and changed humanity forever - (Graphic from SCIENCE ALERT).

The data are especially valuable when they are coupled with architectural remains and other remains that show how ancient humans survived this sudden climate catastrophe.

In addition, according to archaeologist Andrew Moore from the Rochester Institute of Technology (UK), they also found shocked quartz grains.

They are called "shock quartz", clear evidence of the impact of a violent explosion, causing a firestorm.

Given its age, it could only represent a cosmic impact, which subsequent studies determined was caused by a comet exploding quite low in Earth's sky.

Because the things that come along with it—like tiny diamonds, a special kind of crystal, tiny spheres of silica in the sediment—could only have been formed in two ways, either by an atomic bomb explosion or by a meteorite explosion. Surely the technology of humans 13,000 years ago could not have produced them.

It was a very bad day for the ancient people of Abu Hureyra, as the entire village likely collapsed. But it was how they managed to survive the devastating climate change that followed that changed humanity forever.

After that extraterrestrial impact, the people of Abu Hureyra learned to grow crops and raise livestock, another clear fact revealed by the sediments.

The primitive hunter-gatherer life officially ended here, and possibly in many other places around the world, because the impact of YD spread globally. All of this brought humanity an unexpected civilizational leap.