my name is Claudio, I'm a sociologist from Salamanca, Chile.
I've stumbled upon an interesting article from 2019, hosted in the US National Library of Medicine official's website. It reads:
"(...) In the most extensive investigation south of the equator, we report on a ~12,800-year-old sequence at Pilauco, Chile (~40°S), that exhibits peak YD boundary concentrations of platinum, gold, high-temperature iron- and chromium-rich spherules, and native iron particles rarely found in nature. A major peak in charcoal abundance marks an intense biomass-burning episode, synchronous with dramatic changes in vegetation, including a high-disturbance regime, seasonality in precipitation, and warmer conditions. This is anti-phased with northern-hemispheric cooling at the YD onset, whose rapidity suggests atmospheric linkage. The sudden disappearance of megafaunal remains and dung fungi in the YDB layer at Pilauco correlates with megafaunal extinctions across the Americas. The Pilauco record appears consistent with YDB impact evidence found at sites on four continents." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6416299/ )
In Pilauco, scientist have found a late Pleistocene human footprint (15.600 years old). This finding, along with the presence of lithic artifacts in the same sedimentary levels, might represent further evidence for a pre-Clovis South American colonization of northern Patagonia, as originally proposed for the nearby Monte Verde site. (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213572)
Furthermore, this event (YD) might have served as an inspiration to the legendary myth about two giant sea and earth serpents that fought each other, causing a cataclysm and subsequent flood. This myth is called "Tren Tren and Cai Cai Vilu'', an ancient Mapuche (southern chile/argentina aborigines) myth that could be considered as a local ancient explanation for the cosmic disaster that was the Younger Dryas. (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trentren_Vilu_y_Caicai_Vilu in spanish)
Let me know what you guys think,
Regards
I've stumbled upon an interesting article from 2019, hosted in the US National Library of Medicine official's website. It reads:
"(...) In the most extensive investigation south of the equator, we report on a ~12,800-year-old sequence at Pilauco, Chile (~40°S), that exhibits peak YD boundary concentrations of platinum, gold, high-temperature iron- and chromium-rich spherules, and native iron particles rarely found in nature. A major peak in charcoal abundance marks an intense biomass-burning episode, synchronous with dramatic changes in vegetation, including a high-disturbance regime, seasonality in precipitation, and warmer conditions. This is anti-phased with northern-hemispheric cooling at the YD onset, whose rapidity suggests atmospheric linkage. The sudden disappearance of megafaunal remains and dung fungi in the YDB layer at Pilauco correlates with megafaunal extinctions across the Americas. The Pilauco record appears consistent with YDB impact evidence found at sites on four continents." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6416299/ )
In Pilauco, scientist have found a late Pleistocene human footprint (15.600 years old). This finding, along with the presence of lithic artifacts in the same sedimentary levels, might represent further evidence for a pre-Clovis South American colonization of northern Patagonia, as originally proposed for the nearby Monte Verde site. (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213572)
Furthermore, this event (YD) might have served as an inspiration to the legendary myth about two giant sea and earth serpents that fought each other, causing a cataclysm and subsequent flood. This myth is called "Tren Tren and Cai Cai Vilu'', an ancient Mapuche (southern chile/argentina aborigines) myth that could be considered as a local ancient explanation for the cosmic disaster that was the Younger Dryas. (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trentren_Vilu_y_Caicai_Vilu in spanish)
Let me know what you guys think,
Regards