Big brother

This afternoon, after the lockfest of the morning, noticed earlier, I have been carrying on with reference 1, last noticed at reference 2.

I thought I would share the discovery that Vesuvius has a big brother called Campi Flegrei, just the other side of Naples. An area of volcanic activity which went off with a very big bang about 37,000 years ago and a slightly more modest bang about 12,000 years ago. Much activity in the wake of the first of these, aka the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption, including the extermination of the Neanderthals and the foundation of modern Europe.

PS: painting of a fumerole (a smoke hole, from the French fumer, to smoke) by Michael Wutky, late eighteenth century. Taken from Wikipedia.

Reference 1: Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past - David Reich – 2018.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/03/counting-ancestors.html.

Reference 3: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/80108/campi-flegrei-italy.