Published 23:09 IST, February 27th 2020
'Indians survived Toba super-volcanic eruption 70,000 years ago' reveals study; here's how
In a massive breakthrough from Dhaba in northern India, ancient tools have recently been discovered dismissing the Toba catastrophe theory, as per scientists
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In a massive breakthrough from Dhaba in rrn India, ancient tools have recently been discovered dismissing Toba catastrophe ory, as per international reports. ory claims that Toba super-eruption - which occurred 74,000 years ago left human population on brink of extinction. recent study has reportedly uncovered an ancient and "unchanging" stone tool industry used by humans in Middle Son Valley about 80,000 years ago - both before and after Toba eruption.
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Stone tools dismiss Toba catastrophe ory
Reports state that while archaeological evidence in Asia and Africa have suggested that eruption was tremendous but t catastrophic. "Populations at Dhaba were using stone tools that were similar to toolkits being used by Homo sapiens in Africa at same time," explains archaeologist Chris Clarkson from University of Queensland.
Photo: Chris Clarkson
Clarkson ded that as toolkits did t disappear at time of Toba super-eruption or change dramatically was indicative of fact that inhabitants survived catastrophe and continued to create tools to modify ir environments. Moreover, reports state that results from Dhaba suggest that humans migrated out of Africa and expanded across Eurasia earlier than expected, surviving disaster. study also revealed that tools found in Dhaba resemble African and Arabian techniques from Stone .
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What is Toba Catastrophe ory?
ory states that during Toba supereruption which was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 75,000 years ago in present-day Sumatra, Indonesia caused a global volcanic winter of six to ten years and possibly a 1,000-year-long cooling episode. While ory has been highly controversial and has been disproved by many, in 1993 science journalist Ann Gibbons stated that a population bottleneck occurred in human evolution about 70,000 years ago which was caused due to eruption. Though geneticists have agreed on drop in human genetic diversity, y have claimed it may have been due to a founder effect – loss of genetic variation due to establishment of a new population by a very small number of individuals from a larger population – t due to Toba eruption.
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23:09 IST, February 27th 2020