title: Middle Paleolithic assemblages from the Indian subcontinent before and after the Toba super-eruption.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK. m.petraglia@human-evol.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Petraglia
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Korisettar
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Boivin
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clarkson
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ditchfield
authors.forename: Sacha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Jinu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koshy
authors.forename: Marta Mirazón
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Lahr
authors.forename: Clive
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Oppenheimer
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pyle
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Jean-Luc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Schwenninger
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001106:Archaeology; D002980:Climate; D019015:Geologic Sediments; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D018707:Volcanic Eruptions