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Randall Carlson | Cataclysms, The Holy Grail, & The Holes In The Human Story
Human Population Crash and the Overkill Hypothesis Debate
Randall Carlson critiques the overkill hypothesis by presenting evidence of a massive human population crash during the early Younger Dryas. He cites research by David Anderson and Albert Goodyear that analyzed 30,000 Paleo-Indian projectile points to show a significant decline in artifacts. This data suggests that humans were victims of the same catastrophic environmental changes that wiped out the megafauna.