Publication Date:
2007-07-07
Description:
The Youngest Toba Tuff (YTT) eruption, which occurred in Indonesia 74,000 years ago, is one of Earth's largest known volcanic events. The effect of the YTT eruption on existing populations of humans, and accordingly on the course of human evolution, is debated. Here we associate the YTT with archaeological assemblages at Jwalapuram, in the Jurreru River valley of southern India. Broad continuity of Middle Paleolithic technology across the YTT event suggests that hominins persisted regionally across this major eruptive event.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Petraglia, Michael -- Korisettar, Ravi -- Boivin, Nicole -- Clarkson, Christopher -- Ditchfield, Peter -- Jones, Sacha -- Koshy, Jinu -- Lahr, Marta Mirazon -- Oppenheimer, Clive -- Pyle, David -- Roberts, Richard -- Schwenninger, Jean-Luc -- Arnold, Lee -- White, Kevin -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Jul 6;317(5834):114-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK. m.petraglia@human-evol.cam.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17615356" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Archaeology
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*Climate
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Geologic Sediments
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*Hominidae
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Humans
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India
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*Volcanic Eruptions
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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