Lightning was ruled out as the source of Abu Hureyra's melt glass because lightning produces magnetic imprints that were absent from the samples.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by peer-reviewed source study (Moore et al. 2020, Scientific Reports), university press release, and independent science journalism.
Sources
- A Comet May Have Destroyed This Paleolithic Village ... (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7060197/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.gi.alaska.edu/news/fire-and-ice-exploding-comet-may-have-destroyed-paleolithic-settlement (gi.alaska.edu)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60867-w (nature.com)
- https://www.sci.news/archaeology/cometary-debris-abu-hureyra-settlement-08596.html (sci.news)