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Scientists claim Tambora civilization buried by volcano found
Ground penetrating radar aided an expedition by Haraldur Sigurdsson and teams from the University of Rhode Island, UNC Wilmington, and the Indonesian Directorate of Volcanology. They unearthed a thatch house, pottery, bronze, carbonized bones, and a new skeletal find dating to the 1815 eruption on Sumbawa Island. The find suggests Tambora's people may have Indochinese ties and language loss from the blast.
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Tambora
Mount Tambora
Sumbawa Island
Mount Krakatoa
U.S
University of Rhode Island
Haraldur Sigurdsson
Pompeii
Maine
France
Germany
Indonesia
Sigurdsson
Indochina
Vietnam
John Miksic
National University of Singapore
Lewis Abrams
Jgan Sutawidjaja
Directorate of Volcanology
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