12 Prehistoric Resets That Wiped Humanity Back to Zero

12 Prehistoric Resets That Wiped Humanity Back to Zero Around 12,900 years ago, at the precise moment humanity was clawing its way out of the last Ice Age and planting the earliest seeds of civilization, something struck. The evidence for it was buried in a thin, dark layer of rock stretching across five continents, and nobody noticed it was there until 2007, when a team of researchers led by scientist Richard Firestone published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that would quietly rewrite the story of early human history.