Early humans in India clearly survived the super-eruption, and there’s no evidence of large-scale animal extinctions distant from the volcano, let alone of hominins
Around 74,000 years ago, the super-volcano Toba erupted in Sumatra. This “mega-colossal” blast has been accused of nearly causing our extinction as a species: Its ash filled the skies and, the theory goes, caused a deadly global volcanic winter lasting as long as 10 years and ushering in a 1,000-year cold spell. But while the category-8 eruption definitely happened and Toba did spew out gargantuan amounts of ash that spread around the world, it didn’t cause mass extinctions far and wide, and certainly didn’t nearly stymie our Maker, argues an international team in a new study in Nature.
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