sábado, 25 de octubre de 2014

Supervolcano Cleared in Neanderthals' Demise


The legendary home of Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei volcano. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

Neanderthals disappeared from Europe 40,000 years ago, about the same time as the region's biggest volcanic blast in the last 200,000 years. But don't blame the volcano, a new study suggests.

Most of the eruption's climate-cooling pollution spread east, away from Neanderthal territory, according to research presented Monday (Oct. 20) here at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.

"The pattern where the cooling was most intense doesn't overlap with where most of the Neanderthal sites are located," said study author Benjamin Black, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. [...] livescience.com/

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