Archaeology shows the Clovis culture vanishing at the Younger Dryas boundary...and they weren’t alone. Around the world, sites show long periods of habitation followed by sudden silence. The common assumption is migration. But what if many of these cultures didn’t relocate at all? The evidence may point instead to abrupt, catastrophic loss...entire populations wiped out rather than moving on. | The Randall Carlson

The sudden catastrophic change at 12,800 years ago wiped out the Clovis culture that had existed for 300 to 500 years. Simultaneous with the mammoths. Studies now show a continental-wide human population crash coincident with megafaunal extinctions. Quarries mined for centuries suddenly abandoned. Campsites with generations of debris and toolkits... suddenly abandoned. The evidence suggests the human population crashed alongside the megafauna. | The Randall Carlson