[blam]

Some place the worldwide human population after the Toba explosion as low as 2,000 people.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

I expect that we'll eventually find that humans were stranded in South America during the Volcano Winter caused by the Toba explosion and were not re-united with the world's other humans until thousands of years later.

[Coyoteman]

More good stuff ===> Placemarker <===

[Darksheare]

I grabbed Kwares Erupt program.
Tried to simulate Toba.
To get the amount of volcanic gunk to erupt that Toba did, you have to simulate an eruption lasting over one year.

Toba erupted its load in less than that.

[naturalized]

20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. 21 Every living thing that moved on the earth perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

Last I checked, ice was water.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Incredible thesis.

[Sam Cree]

The above looks like a moderne style menorah. Very nice design.

Placemark, I look forward to reading this.

[add925]

Proud member of Haplogroup G2 :^)

[Toadman]

ping for great discussion topic

[Little Pig]

Given how benign nature has been over the last 20,000 years, people forget how awful things can get. All it would take is another of these things to wake up, and there goes civilization down the drain for another hundred centuries.

[Bender2]

Bump for later read...

[SunkenCiv]

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[Interesting Times]

Toba near-extinction ping...

[CobaltBlue]

18 meters of ash is incredible.

I wonder how future generations of mankind could cope with that type of devastation? I think we could -- if enough science types survived the initial chaos.

Another thought - would this not have caused massive extinctions among non-human animals, as well?

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

read later

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Some place the worldwide human population after the Toba explosion as low as 2,000 people.

I bet they were conservatives. Liberals ("give me half your pie, because I didn't make one") came later, after the conservatives rebuilt the world.

Thanks for this very interesting post. These folks doing the genetic marker tracking are doing great work. It is interesting to note that, if traces of hominid occupation of North America can be traced a far back a 35,000 years, This means that these early people traveled fast, far, and wide. Simply amazing.

[SunkenCiv]

from december 2005.

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[blam]

Ping.

[beebuster2000]

btt

[blam]

This subject is presently being covered on the National Geographic Channel. A one hour documentary.

[GOPJ]

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