Abstract
The Brenham/Haviland meteor crater is just one of a plethora of impact features comprising a large (~800 ha) late-Holocene-age strewn field in Kiowa County, Kansas. More than 10,000 kg of pallasites, a rare class of stony meteorites, have been recovered from impact features and the surface of the strewn field. Six AMS radiocarbon ages demonstrate there is a 95.4% probability that the impact event occurred within a range of 1497 BCE to 419 BCE and most likely between 754 BCE and 419 BCE. The impact event is well described in Pawnee oral histories and illustrated in petroglyphs near the strewn field. The age and geographic extent of the Kiowa County, Kansas, strewn field increases our understanding of the frequency of cosmic impact events on Earth and their influence on people and culture change.
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