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Bradshaw Foundation: Volcanic Winter and Modern Humans HandoutBradshaw Foundation: Volcanic Winter and Modern Humans Handout
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Bradshaw Foundation: Volcanic Winter and Modern Humans

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Explanation of the volcanic winter that happened about 20,000 years ago that destroyed most of the human population not living in Africa. Explains how these early people coped with this 1000 years of nuclear winter and how when it was over they completely populated the world.

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modern humans, pre-history, spread of early humans, spread of early man, ancient volcano, first civilizations (prehistory to ad 500)

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