When an ancient volcanic ‘supereruption’ caused sudden cooling, early humans got lucky
When an ancient volcanic ‘supereruption’ caused sudden cooling, early humans got lucky: The Toba eruption left behind a 100km long lake where the volcano had once been. Clive Oppenheimer, Author provided Around 74,000 years ago, a “supereruption” on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, blasted out an estimated 5,000 cubic kilometres of magma. This was the …