Phil Silvia has fowarded a link to an update of the article first published a few years ago – now withdrawn. It is now published by Science Open …
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293/ACI.2025.0003 …
It is also available in a paper edition in the journal ‘Airbursts and Cratering Impacts‘ … and they have some other interesting articles in the same volume.
I shall do another post on this when I have fully read the article but it seems to have added a lot of additional information to the original article, especially where it concerns the fragments of human bone in the destruction layer.
The original article, published in Scientific Reports back in 2021, has been updated and expanded. It is a very long article as it sets out to rebuff its mainstream critics. A long read. One that I would normally print off to read at leasure. However, this one is going to take a lot of printer ink. Make sure you have enough ink in your cartridge. Or you could dip in and out and only print off the bits you are especially interested in keeping as a source of information in the future. The auithors have incorporated data on the directionality of the blast wave – SW to NE. It has found similarities between shocked quartz at Hammam and shocked quartz at Tunguska. In the past, this idea has been disputed. It is now back on.
It is an extremely detailed account. The focus of interest is mostly the destruction layer that covers the top of the former city. It is dated by C14 methodology [calibrated] to around 1650BC. The uncalibrated date would therefore be somewher around 1500BC. They also discuss various other possible causes for the destruction that involve extreme heat. They go on to compare it to an atomic detonation, what they know about the Tunguska blast, and a hydrocode airburst model. The destruction layer itself comes in 3 parts. The lowest is mainly pulverised mudbrick mixed with larger melted and unmelted mudbrick fragments, plaster fragments, broken pottery, and melted pottery. Above this is a second layer comprised of thin, windblown, fine grained laminations – including fragments of plaster, limestone, and charcoal. The hird part is a charcoal and ash rich ‘dark layer’ – found everywhere across the site. Numerous fragments of human bone exist in the destruction layer.