Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba super-volcanic eruption ~ 74,000 years ago

(Arizona State University) New research describes finding glass shards from a volcanic eruption at two archaeological sites in coastal South Africa, tracing those shards to Mount Toba in Indonesia through chemical fingerprinting and documenting a continuous human occupation across the volcanic event.

from EurekAlert! - Archaeology http://ift.tt/2FC5db1