Researchers have found shocked quartz at three Clovis culture archaeological sites, supporting the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes a fragmented comet explosion contributed to megafaunal extinctions and the disappearance of the Clovis culture.
   
    
 
 
  
   
   Carvings at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey may represent the world's oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, researchers suggest.