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To: PIF; SunkenCiv; All

Mt. Vesuvius has a huge caldera which may represent a huge blowout around 25,000 years ago. Sakura-jima in Japan blew a 15 mile diameter crater around 22,000 years ago. Several such events would have further decimated Neanderthal/human populations, especially if they had also been reduced by events 40,000 years ago. Lots more here to study and undersatnd.


35 posted on 09/25/2010 10:01:17 PM PDT by gleeaikin (question authority)
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To: gleeaikin
“...25,000 years ago...” or 23,000 BC -— as far as I know by that date the Neanderthals had been gone for 5000 years or so.

We have a fair knowledge of Holocene volcanic activity, but further back is quite murky, with the exception of some very large eruptions like Mt Toba circa 74,000 BC (which nearly wiped out all of the existing homo sapiens population... estimates range from a few hundred to a few thousand survivors)

37 posted on 09/26/2010 5:35:48 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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