No mineralogic or geochemical evidence of impact at Tall el-Hammam, a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea

Affiliations

¹ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, 10024, USA. Sjaret@amnh.org.
² Department of Space Sciences, Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta, GA, 30307, USA.

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Steven J Jaret et al. Sci Rep. 2022.

. 2022 Mar 25;12(1):5189.

doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-08216-x.

¹ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, 10024, USA. Sjaret@amnh.org.
² Department of Space Sciences, Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta, GA, 30307, USA.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea.
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