Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture

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Video: Volcanic Winter, Population Bottlenecks, and Human Evolution

The eruption of the Mount Toba supervolcano in the Indonesian island of Sumatra74,000 years ago brought about an era of severe environmental degradation that decimated populations of Neanderthals and modern humans. Archaeological evidence suggests that...