Ice Age Now by Robert 2/28/2020
The Toba supervolcanic eruption about 74,000 years ago was one of the most colossal eruptions in the past 2 million years.
The massive eruption at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia spewed an estimated 1,000 times as much rock as the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens and, many believe, triggered a decade-long “volcanic winter†and a millenia-long glacial period.
This so-called Toba catastrophe theory left the global human population with just a few thousand survivors.
However, an ancient stone tool industry uncovered at Dhaba in northern India suggests that humans have continuously occupied the Middle Son Valley for roughly 80,000 years, both before and after the Toba eruption.
“Populations at Dhaba were using stone tools that were similar to the toolkits being used by Homo sapiens in Africa at the same time,†explains archaeologist Chris Clarkson from the University of Queensland.
“The fact that these toolkits did not disappear at the time of the Toba super-eruption or change dramatically soon after indicates that human populations survived the so-called catastrophe.â€
More:
https://www.iceagenow.info/stone-tools-show-humans-in-india-survived-a-massive-volcanic-eruption-74000-years-ago/#more-31072
