Editing Impact event (section)

==== Pleistocene ====
{{Further|Pleistocene}}
[[File:Barringer Crater aerial photo by USGS.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of [[Barringer Crater]] in [[Arizona]]]]

[[Stone tools|Artifacts]] recovered with [[tektites]] from the 803,000-year-old [[Australasian strewnfield]] event in Asia link a ''[[Homo erectus]]'' population to a significant meteorite impact and its aftermath.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/stone-tools/early-stone-age-tools/handaxe-and-tektites-bose-china|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008080600/https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/handaxe-and-tektites-bose-china|url-status=dead|title=Handaxe and Tektites from Bose, China|archivedate=October 8, 2014|website=The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/664967.stm | work=BBC News | title=Asia's oldest axe tools discovered | date=March 3, 2000}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.144024|title = Early Dispersals of Homo from Africa| journal=Annual Review of Anthropology| volume=33| pages=271–296|year = 2004|last1 = Antón|first1 = Susan C.| last2=Swisher, Iii| first2=Carl C.}}</ref> Significant examples of Pleistocene impacts include the [[Lonar crater lake]] in India, approximately 52,000 years old (though a study published in 2010 gives a much greater age), which now has a flourishing semi-tropical jungle around it.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
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