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Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how

  • Written by: Raven Garvey, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
imageWandering magnetic fields would have had noticeable effects for humans.Maximilian Schanner (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicistswho investigate interactions between solar...

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