Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago

Eugene I. Smith (), Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C. Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A. Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S. Lane, Thalassa Matthews and Curtis W. Marean ()
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Eugene I. Smith: University of Nevada Las Vegas
Zenobia Jacobs: ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage & Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong
Racheal Johnsen: University of Nevada Las Vegas
Minghua Ren: University of Nevada Las Vegas
Erich C. Fisher: Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, PO Box 872402, Arizona State University
Simen Oestmo: African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
Jayne Wilkins: Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Private Bag
Jacob A. Harris: Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, PO Box 872402, Arizona State University
Panagiotis Karkanas: Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, American School of Classical Studies
Shelby Fitch: University of Nevada Las Vegas
Amber Ciravolo: University of Nevada Las Vegas
Deborah Keenan: Geoscience Consultants LLC
Naomi Cleghorn: African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
Christine S. Lane: University of Cambridge, Downing Place
Thalassa Matthews: Iziko Museums of South Africa, Queen Victoria Street
Curtis W. Marean: Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, PO Box 872402, Arizona State University

Nature, 2018, vol. 555, issue 7697, 511-515

Abstract: Youngest Toba Tuff glass shards found together with evidence of human occupation at two archaeological sites from the southern coast of South Africa indicate that early modern humans thrived in this region despite the eruption of the Toba supervolcano about 74,000 years ago.

Date: 2018
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