Humanity may have stared down a volcanic apocalypse 74,000 years ago — and survived through sheer adaptability. Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com Seventy four thousand years ago, Earth experienced one of the most powerful volcanic disasters in the past 2.5 million years. The Toba supereruption , centered in what is now Indonesia, unleashed devastation on a staggering scale. The eruption was so enormous that scientists believe its effects reached nearly every corner of the planet. For archaeologists