Supervolcano - Ongoing Studies

Ongoing Studies

  • A hypothetical Campanian ignimbrite super-eruption around 40,000 years ago has been suggested as having contributed to the demise of the Neanderthal, based on evidence from Mezmaiskaya cave in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia.

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