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Super-eruption: no problem?

Tools found before and after a massive eruption hint at a hardy population.

A stash of ancient tools in India hints that life carried on as usual for humans living in the fall-out of a massive volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on July 6, 2007 10:21 AM |

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This seems even more evidence that the more technically competant human ancestors evolved in SE Asia. Added to which they would have had to be able to make sea-worthy boats by then to escape an exploding volcano in their homeland, and sail safely across shark and crocodile infested seas with the family, to find more peaceful shores. Australia was already being inhabited by then -

Posted by: Heather Hobden | July 9, 2007 10:05 PM

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