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Study maps the uneven human toll of Japan's 7,300-year-old super-eruption

Active researcher on long-term human population dynamics

A volcano off southern Japan erupted 7,300 years ago, burying the archipelago in ash and killing many of the hunter-gatherers living nearby. New statistical modeling of radiocarbon dates shows the human toll was strikingly uneven. Some regions emptied, others declined hundreds of kilometers away, and a few communities near the blast kept growing.

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