Great floods, the Younger Dryas Impact and the Toba eruption all present obstacles and challenges to the survival of early modern humans.
This Episode’s Sources:
Letters (Pliny the Younger),
Noah’s Not-So-Big Flood (www.whoi.edu),
The Epic of Gilgamesh,
Timaeus (Plato),
Critias (Plato),
Metamorphoses (Ovid),
The Book of Genesis.
Younger Dryas (Wikipedia),
2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami (Wikipedia),
Toba Eruption (Wikipedia)
Recommended Reads
A Catastrophe Of Comets: Conclusive Evidence For The Younger Dryas Impact Events And The Causes Of The Holocene Extinctions
Deadly Voyager: The Ancient Comet Strike that Changed Earth and Human History
Killer Comet – What the Carolina Bays tell us
When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
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