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A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived


If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years.

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