Discover traces of other humans living in the 'volcanic winter'

Archaeologists have found incredible traces of other human beings who wandered in India 74,000 years ago, now dead by the Toba volcano winter.

A team of scientists from Max Planck Institute for Human Sciences and History (Germany), Allahabad University (India), Macquarie University and University of Queensland (Australia) have found the first evidence of individuals belonging to genus He survived outside Africa in the catastrophic era 74,000 years ago, when the Toba super volcano disaster made other lands almost turned into a "death zone".

Toba is a terrifying volcano in Indonesia. During this eruption, it gave the earth a dark winter lasting for 10 years due to ash covering the sun. For the next 1,000 years, the earth was still colder than usual.

Stone tools found in India show that at least one mysterious human species survived the "death zone" during the Toba disaster - (photo: Chris Clakson).

Even in Africa, our ancestors, Homo sapiens, have gone through a difficult, almost extinct, and survived only by the ingenuity of finding the source of life.

But unbelievably, scientists have found tools dating back to the Toba disaster in Dhaba, Middle Son Valley, India, a place close enough to be hit hard. from the eruption. Further analysis of the evidence suggests that this community existed during the period of 80,000-25,000 years ago.

According to Professor Chris Clakson (University of Queensland), a member of the research team, the ancient Dhaba population used tools similar to the Homo sapiens in Africa at the time.They may be Neanderthals, Denisovans or an unidentified human species.

But it is clear that it was not our direct ancestors because Homo sapiens did 60,000 years ago, when the population recovered strongly enough after the Toba disaster, to leave Africa. This is a lucky thing because in the "volcanic winter" , Africa can be considered temporarily livable. According to calculations, after Toba erupted, the sky over what is Indonesia today is obscured by a cloud of ashes as thick as 100 cm, while in India it is 5cm, in Africa it is 0.1cm.

Meanwhile, some groups of extinct human species such as Denisovans or Neanderthals are thought to have left the cradle of humanity long before that. Some groups may remain and only leave at the same time or after the first group of Homo sapiens.

So far, the remnant of the "evil god" that caused volcanic winters that caused people near extinction is Lake Toba in Indonesia. It is up to 30km wide, 100km long and more than 500m deep.