A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived
- Written by Jayde N. Hirniak, Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology, Arizona State University
Collecting microscopic glass samples at Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains in South Africa.Katherine ElmesIf you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years.
While the volcano is located in what’s now Indonesia, living...