This depiction shows Bronze Age people leaving their footprints in the volcanic ash and then later illustrating the volcano's massive eruption on a rock shelter about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) away.

The volcanic activity is one factor thought to contribute to this particularly cold interlude, alongside unusual solar activity and changes in ocean currents.

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Rock Art and Footprints Reveal How Ancient Humans Responded to Volcanic Eruption New study dates the preserved footprints to 4,700 years ago, a full 245,000 years later than previously suggested ...

Munch however was not the first painter to be inspired by the surreal sunsets caused by volcanic eruptions. American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church traveled to Ontario in December 1883 ...

Cai Guo-Qiang at the foot of Mount Vesuvius making gunpowder tests with the Naples-based firework company, Pompeii, 2018. Photo by Sang Luo, courtesy Cai Studio.

For example, the volcanic ash clouds from the 2010 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull caused the largest closure of European airspace since World War Two and cost the aviation ...