September 24, 2026•8 min read
Ash and Stone: What Jwalapuram Reveals About Surviving a Supervolcano
Roughly 74,000 years ago, Mount Toba erupted with catastrophic force, triggering a decade-long volcanic winter and inspiring the theory that humanity was pushed to the brink of extinction. In Andhra Pradesh's Jurreru River valley, excavations at Jwalapuram have spent two decades challenging that narrative — revealing Middle Palaeolithic stone tools buried directly beneath, and preserved above, metres of volcanic ash.
