WE WEREN’T EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Researchers find evidence of a cosmic impact that caused destruction of one of the world’s earliest human settlements. “Unlike the evidence from Pilauco, which was limited to human butchering of large animals up to but not younger than the YDB impact burn layer, Abu Hureyra shows direct evidence of the disaster on this early human settlement. An impact or an airburst must have occurred sufficiently close to send massive heat and molten glass over the entire early village, Kennett noted.”