Dr. Shane Miller is back on the podcast to talk about a new paper that just came out. The Hopewell airbust event, published about in Nature Scientific Reports, is believed to be a series of near-Earth comets that are hypothesized to have had impacts on cultures living around 1600 years ago (252-383 CE). We dive into this paper and discuss its argument, the pitfalls/questions we have about the paper and where we want to see the research go in the future.

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Transcripts

For rough transcript head over to A Life in Ruins Episode 98.

Links

• The Hopewell airburst event,1699–1567 years ago (252–383 CE) by Kenneth Barnett Tankersley et al.

Literature Recommendations

• The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age (Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives) edited by D. Shane Miller, Ashley M. Smallwood and Jesse W.Tune

Guest Contact

• Dr. Shane Miller on Twitter: @TheDurty_Trowel

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