RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Indian Subcontinent Before and After the Toba Super-Eruption
JF Science
JO Science
FD American Association for the Advancement of Science
SP 114
OP 116
DO 10.1126/science.1141564
VO 317
IS 5834
A1 Petraglia, Michael
A1 Korisettar, Ravi
A1 Boivin, Nicole
A1 Clarkson, Christopher
A1 Ditchfield, Peter
A1 Jones, Sacha
A1 Koshy, Jinu
A1 Lahr, Marta Mirazón
A1 Oppenheimer, Clive
A1 Pyle, David
A1 Roberts, Richard
A1 Schwenninger, Jean-Luc
A1 Arnold, Lee
A1 White, Kevin
YR 2007
UL http://science.sciencemag.org/content/317/5834/114.abstract
AB 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.