Winter 2018, Cover Stories, Daily News
No volcanic winter in East Africa from ancient Toba eruption
Tue, Feb 06, 2018
The super eruption 74,000 years ago did not trigger major environmental disruption that caused human populations in East Africa to decline, say University of Arizona geoscientists.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA—The massive Toba volcanic eruption on the island of Sumatra about 74,000 years ago did not cause a six-year-long "volcanic winter" in East Africa and thereby cause the human population in the region to plummet, according to new University of Arizona-led research.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/no-volcanic-winter-in-east-africa-from-ancient-toba-eruption
