Humans ‘thrived’ after historic Mount Toba eruption – BBC News

BBC news reports that new research suggests that early humans may have flourished after the largest volcanic eruption in history, according to new research.Mount Toba erupted in Indonesia about 74,000 years ago.The event was long thought to have caused a volcanic winter, drastically reducing the global human population at the time. However, recent excavations in South Africa suggest that settlements there not only endured the cataclysm, but may have “thrived” in its wake.The findings complementprevious work in Lake Malawi, which searched lake bed cores for evidence of a global climate catastrophe at the time of the eruption, but could find none.

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