Oct 03 2009
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“ It is currently not known where human populations were living at the time of the eruption. The simplest scenario would be that all the survivors were populations living in Africa, whose descendants would go on to populate the world. However, recent archeological finds, mentioned above, have suggested that a human population may have survived in India. Dating of early human migrations cannot yet give a conclusive answer to this question. Recent analyses of mitochondrial DNA have set the estimate for the major migration from Africa from 60,000 to 70,000 years ago,[15] whereas the Toba eruption has been dated to 75,500–67,500 years ago. Either from Africa or from South Asia, during the following tens of thousands of years the surviving populations would populate Australia, East Asia, Europe and finally the Americas.
