As we know, Lake Toba is a volcanic lake where in the middle of this lake there is an island called Samosir Island. Lake Toba is one of the largest lakes in Southeast Asia located in Indonesia, precisely in the province of North Sumatra. From the past until now, this lake became an attractive tourist spot both domestically and abroad. As for the majority of the population around the lake Toba is batak people with livelihood as farmers, traders and fishermen. To find out more and clear about the beginning / ins and outs / history of Lake Toba, here's the start of a variety of sources on the history of Lake Toba toba and folklore early lake Toba.
The history of Lake Toba
It is estimated that Lake Toba occurred during an explosion of about 73,000-75,000 years ago and is the eruption of Supervolcano (super volcano) the most recent. Bill Rose and Craig Chesner of Michigan Technological University estimated that the volcanic materials that spewed the mountain was 2,800 km³, with 800 km³ of ignimbrite rock and 2,000 km³ of volcanic ash expected to be blown to the west for 2 weeks. Wind-blown volcanic ash has spread to half the earth, from China to South Africa. The eruption occurred for 1 week and throw the dust up to 10 km above sea level.
This incident caused mass death and in some species also followed extinction. According to some DNA evidence, this eruption also shrinks the human population to about 60% of the total human population of the earth at that time, which is about 60 million people. The eruption also contributed to the occurrence of an ice age, although experts are still debating it.
After the eruption, a caldera was formed which then filled with water and became what is now known as Lake Toba. Upward pressure by the magma that has not yet come out causes the emergence of Samosir Island.
An international multidisciplinary research team, led by Dr. Michael Petraglia, revealed at a press conference in Oxford, United States that a new archeological site has been discovered that is quite spectacular by geologists in the south and north of India. The site revealed how people survived, before and after the Toba volcano (supervolcano) eruption 74,000 years ago, and evidence of life under the ashes of Mount Toba. Though the source of the eruption is 3,000 miles away, from the distribution of the ashes.
For seven years, experts from oxford University are researching ecosystem projects in India, to look for evidence of life and life equipment they left behind in barren fields. This area of thousands of hectares is just a savanna (grassland). While animal bones scattered. The team concluded, this large area was covered with dust from the eruption of ancient volcanoes.
The spread of volcanic dust is immense, found almost all over the world. Derived from an ancient supervolcano eruption, which is Mount Toba. Allegations lead to Mount Toba, because found evidence of the same form of molecular volcanic ash at 2100 dots. Since the caldera crater is now a lake Toba in Indonesia, up to 3000 miles, from the source of the eruption. Even quite surprising, it turns out that the spread of dust to be recorded until the North Pole. This reminds the experts, how terrible the super eruption of Toba volcano at that time. The evidence found, reinforcing the notion, that the power of eruption and ocean waves could annihilate life in Atlantis. (Wikipedia Indonesia)
Folklore Beginning of Lake Toba
In the region of Sumatra live a very diligent farmer working. He lived alone. Every day he worked on lading and fishing with tireless. This is done to meet his daily needs.
One day the farmer went to the river near where he lived