Primordial tales of women marrying bears occur across the global north, in conjunction with matriarchal social orders stretching back to the interglacial period before the Younger Dryas. Co-authors Barbara Alice Mann and Kaarina Kailo trace the archaeology, biology, history, culture, and oral traditions of these tales, finding that the meteor swarm of 12,800, with hits found in Greenland greatly impacted these tales, following through the Younger Dryas and into the historical period.
