Stone tools show humans in India survived the cataclysmic Toba eruption 74,000 years ago
- Written by Chris Clarkson, Professor in Archaeology, The University of Queensland
About 74,000 years ago a volcanic eruption at what is now Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia, created one of the most dramatic natural disasters of the past 2 million years. The plume of the eruption punched 30 kilometres or more into the sky, eventually blanketing much of India and parts of Africa in a layer of ash.
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