Toba, the Super-Eruption That Did Not Erase Humanity: What the Site of Dhaba Reveals
About 74,000 years ago, the Toba volcano in Sumatra produced one of the most violent eruptions of the Quaternary and scattered its ash as far as India and East Africa. For a long time it was thought to have nearly wiped our species off the map. In the Son Valley of India, the site of Dhaba tells a very different story: that of populations who came through the catastrophe without breaking the thread of their craft.
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