6,000-yr-old skull identified as oldest-known tsunami victim
A 6,000-year-old skull found in Papua New Guinea in 1929, once thought to belong to an extinct human species, has been identified as   the oldest-known human victim of a tsunami. Australia-based scientists examined sediment deposits at the site of discovery and spotted microscopic organisms similar to those found in soil after the 1998 tsunami, leading to the characterisation.