Modern Human Presence in Sumatra 73,000– 63,000 Years Ago

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Indonesia: First Humans May Have Arrived in Sumatra

in Time for Toba Supervolcano Eruption, New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142952-early-humans-may-have-seen-a-supervolcano-explosion-up-close/

 

Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in

Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago August 10, 2017

by Kira Westaway, The Conversation

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-teeth-rediscovered-cave-humans-indonesia.html

 

Westaway, K. E., J. Louys, R. Due Awe, and others, 2017,

An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–

63,000 years ago. Nature (2017) doi:10.1038/nature23452

Received 30 March 2017 Accepted 29 June 2017 Published

online 09 August 2017

https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature23452.html

 

Related articles:

 

Are we ready for the next volcanic catastrophe?

Bill McGuire, The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/28/are-we-ready-for-the-next-big-volcanic-eruption-tambora-bill-mcguire

 

Toba catastrophe theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.