• 5:19 - 8:01
Randall Carlson | Cataclysms, The Holy Grail, & The Holes In The Human Story
Megafauna Extinction and Radiocarbon Dating Developments
Randall Carlson challenges the overkill hypothesis, arguing that Paleo-Indian hunters could not have exterminated millions of mammoths and other species. He explains how the development of radiocarbon dating in the 1970s revealed that climate shifts at the end of the Ice Age occurred much faster than previously thought. Carlson cites the work of Louis Alvarez on the dinosaur extinction as a pivotal influence on his impact theories.