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7. But they were not "in the wrong place at the wrong time"
Mon Jun 17, 2024, 03:57 AM
Jun 2024

The ejecta from the Campanian eruption headed over Greece towards the Russian steps

Campanian Ignimbrite’s contribution to the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition.



Tephra fallout, together with the attendant episode of Fenno-Scandinavian ice cap and peripheral tundra advance on land (top dashed line), suggests a reduction of the area available for human settlement in Europe of up to 30% (represented by the ash fallout gap with isopach tephra deposits in cm). Anatomically modern humans would have gravitated towards repopulating this gap after ecosystem

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21220

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