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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-09-11T07:16:13'
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title: It has been suggested that
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It has been suggested that a comet or meteor strike may have ushered in the Dark Ages, the period in human history from 500AD to roughly 1000AD where progress around the world came to a halt or (in the case of Europe) moved backward. [Data from tree rings](http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/newsid_916000/916421.stm) lend support to this theory.