Early Humans Survived a Supervolcano Eruption
Just one microscopic piece of volcanic glass was key to the discovery.
by Meghan Bartels
Apr 27, 2018
1 minute
Once every couple dozen millennia, Earth undergoes a cataclysm, the eruption of one of a handful of the so-called supervolcanoes on its surface. They have a nasty habit of throwing the planet into a global winter. We haven't seen one, so while scientists can measure impacts like , it's harder to understand how humans would have fared during these blasts and their aftermath.
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