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Trapped in Ice: The Paleolithic World

Tides of History

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The Origins of Homo Sapiens

There used to be a theory that a super volcano eruption some 75 thousand years ago in indonesia and what's now lake toba caused a global climatic catastrophe. Once they left, this group served as the immediate ancestors of all non africans. This initial founding group then became the major source of ancestry for non-Africans everywhere from britain to india to siberia to chile. We can trace most of to day's existing lineages to them.

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