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The largest eruption of the age, 73,900 years ago; people in India and South Africa carry on through its ash.
The mechanism
THE SECOND SHAKING — lived through
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: ADDED 2026-09-18
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — Antarctic ice core, Talos Dome, showing the Toba ash layer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_core_extracted_at_Talos_Dome_showing_an_ash_layer_corresponding_to_the_Toba_eruption.jpg
- SourcesMEASUREMENT — the Youngest Toba Tuff, 73.88 ka; occupation through the ash at Pinnacle Point (Smith 2018) and Jwalapuram (Petraglia 2007); the bottleneck claim (Ambrose 1998) is contested
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