Did Ancient Volcano Alter Human History?
An ancient volcanic super-eruption, one of the largest known in Earth’s history, may not have devastated the world and humanity as much as once thought. The eruption at what is now Lake Toba in the Indonesia island of Sumatra roughly 75,000 years ago was the largest in the last 2 million years. This gigantic blast released at least 7.7 trillion tons or 670 cubic miles of magma, equivalent in mass to more than 19 million Empire State Buildings. Vast plumes of ash stretched from the South China Sea to the Arabian Sea and likely blotted out the sun and drastically cooled the Earth for years—a “volcanic winter.” Scientists have suggested the environmental catastrophe that might have resulted could have influenced the course of human history, with people today evolving from the few thousand survivors of that disaster. function google_ad_request_done(google_ads){ var s = ”; var i; if(google_ads.length == 0){ return; } s += ‘Ads by Google’ for(i = 0; i ‘ + google_ads[i].line1 + ” + google_a
