Archaeology & Prehistory
Jwalapuram: humans around the Toba supereruption
c. 74,000 yaPalaeolithic humansJwalapuram (Andhra Pradesh)Andhra Pradesh
74,000 years ago
Stone tools below and above the ~74,000-year Toba volcanic ash layer.
- Dated
- 74,000 years ago
- As scholars put it
- c. 74,000 ya
- Originator
- Palaeolithic humans
- Source text
- Jwalapuram (Andhra Pradesh)
- Region
- Andhra Pradesh
- Discipline
- Archaeology & Prehistory
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- Medium
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Relevant to the timing of modern-human dispersal out of Africa.
Fair to say
Whether the tool-makers were modern humans, and continuity across the ash, are contested.
Path to modern innovation
Evidence bearing on when Homo sapiens reached India.
Transmission
Occupation spanning a global catastrophe.
References
- 1Petraglia et al., Science (2007)
Further reading
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