Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Indian Subcontinent Before and After the Toba Super-Eruption
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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.
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This project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (Environmental Factors in the Chronology of Human Evolution and Dispersal program), the Leakey Foundation, the NERC Arts and Humanities Research Council Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Dating Service, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the Australian Research Council, and Queens' College (Cambridge). We thank the Archaeological Survey of India for permission to conduct the field work and the other participants in the project for their contributions to the excavations and artifact cataloguing. We thank C. Chesner for providing tephra samples; C. Hayward for technical support on the electron microprobe; and R. Foley, Z. Jacobs, T. Kivisild, and P. Mellars for useful discussions.
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Volume 317 | Issue 5834
6 July 2007
6 July 2007
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Received: 21 February 2007
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