Volcanic winter in the Garden of Eden: The Toba supereruption and the late Pleistocene human population crash

2000/01/01 by Michael R. Rampino, Stanley H. Ambrose · 43 citations
Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Computer science #Crash #Demography #Geography #Geology #Physical geography #Pleistocene #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Population #Seismology #Volcano

paper · doi:10.1130/0-8137-2345-0.71

published in Volcanic Hazards and Disasters in Human Antiquity (Geological Society of America)

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