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The Toba eruption (also called the Toba supereruption and the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, [2] at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia.
The controversial Toba catastrophe theory, presented in the late 1990s to early 2000s, suggested that a bottleneck of the human population occurred approximately 75,000 years ago, proposing that the human population was reduced to perhaps 10,000–30,000 individuals [14] when the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia erupted and triggered a major ...
A late human population bottleneck is postulated by some scholars at approximately 70,000 years ago, during the Toba catastrophe, when Homo sapiens population may have dropped to as low as between 1,000 and 10,000 individuals.
Toba Caldera is one of twenty geoparks in Indonesia, [2] and was recognised in July 2020 as one of the UNESCO Global Geoparks. [3] [4] [5] Lake Toba is the site of a supervolcanic eruption estimated at VEI 8 that occurred 69,000 to 77,000 years ago, [6] [7] [8] representing a climate-changing event.
Eruptions the size of that at Lake Toba 74,000 years ago, ... possibly responsible for a population bottleneck of the human species (see Toba catastrophe theory) ...
Climatological and geological evidence suggests evidence for the bottleneck. The explosion of Toba, the largest volcanic eruption of the Quaternary, may have created a 1,000 year cold period, potentially reducing human populations to a few tropical refugia. It has been estimated that as few as 15,000 humans survived.
The Toba eruption 75,000 years ago in present-day Sumatra, Indonesia has been linked to a bottleneck in the human DNA, although such a causal link remains highly controversial. 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa. They began replacing other Hominins in Asia. They also began replacing Neanderthals in Europe.
Yes. It's in the article, Toba eruption#Genetic bottleneck theory. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 04:21, 21 April 2010 (UTC) The article Toba catastrophe theory does not mention pyramids or astrology. The only direct evidence of how the Toba eruption must have devastated the life of people living at the time of the eruption has been found in Malaysia.