Discovery of widespread platinum may help solve Clovis people mystery

The discovery of an abundance of platinum at Clovis sites across the U.S. adds to the research that suggests a cosmic event

may have wiped out the Clovis people and large beasts that lived around 12,800 years ago [Credit: NASA]

Platinum – an element associated with cosmic objects like asteroids or comets

[Credit: WikiCommons]

University of South Carolina archaeologists found an abundance of platinum -- an element associated with cosmic

objects like asteroids or comet -- at 11 Clovis excavation sites across the United States [Credit: South Carolina

Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina]

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