Subdecadal phytolith and charcoal records from Lake Malawi, East Africa imply minimal effects on human evolution from the ∼74 ka Toba supereruption

2018/02/05 by Chad Yost, Chad L. Yost, Lily J. Jackson +2 · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.11.005

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• Human extinction [wikipedia]
• Lake Toba [wikipedia]
• North Sumatra [wikipedia]