[Rockhounds] No volcanic winter in East Africa from ancient Toba eruption.

[Paul]

No volcanic winter in East Africa from ancient Toba eruption.
The supereruption 74,000 years ago did not trigger major
environmental disruption that caused human populations
in East Africa to decline, say geoscientists.
University of Arizona, February 6, 2018
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180206151850.htm
https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/no-volcanic-winter-east-africa-ancient-toba-eruption

The paper is:

Chad L. Yost, Lily J. Jackson, Jeffery R. Stone, Andrew S.
Cohen. Subdecadal phytolith and charcoal records from
Lake Malawi, East Africa imply minimal effects on human
evolution from the ∼74 ka Toba supereruption. Journal of
Human Evolution, 2018; 116: 75 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.11.005
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323019180_Subdecadal_phytolith_and_charcoal_records_from_Lake_Malawi_East_Africa_imply_minimal_effects_on_human_evolution_from_the_74_ka_Toba_supereruption
https://www.geo.arizona.edu/sites/www.geo.arizona.edu/files/135%20Yost%20et%20al%202018%20Toba%20Malawi%20Jour%20Human%20Evol.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248417302750?via%3Dihub

Also, there is:

Modern humans flourished through ancient supervolcano
eruption 74,000 years ago. University of Cape Town, March 12, 2018
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180312132956.htm
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43377960

The paper is:

Eugene I. Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua
Ren, Erich C. Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A.
Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo,
Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S. Lane,
Thalassa Matthews, Curtis W. Marean. Humans thrived
in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000
years ago. Nature, 2018; DOI: 10.1038/nature25967
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/geo_fac_articles/145/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25967

Yours,

Paul H.