Het bewijs voor deze vulkaan als oorzaak lijkt evenals de timing niet erg sterk.
De uitbarsting was iets groter dan Pinatubo in 1991 en dan verwacht je ook niet zulke drastische effecten. Dan denk je toch eerder aan een uitbarsting van het formaat Tambora of Samalas.
van wikipedia:
The wider effects of the eruption were limited, amounting to several years of cold summers and up to two decades of environmental disruption in Germany. However, the lives of the local population, known as the Federmesser culture, were disrupted. Before the eruption, they were a sparsely distributed people who subsisted by foraging and hunting, using both spears and bows and arrows. According to archaeologist Felix Riede, after the eruption the area most affected by the fallout, the Thuringian Basin occupied by the Federmesser, appears to have been largely depopulated, whereas populations in southwest Germany and France increased. Two new cultures, the Bromme of southern Scandinavia and the Perstunian of northeast Europe emerged. These cultures had a lower level of toolmaking skills than the Federmesser, particularly the Bromme who appear to have lost the bow and arrow technology. In Riede's view the decline was a result from the disruption caused by the Laacher See volcano.[11]
The eruption was discussed as a possible cause for the Younger Dryas, a period of global cooling near the end of the last glacial maximum that appeared to coincide with the time of the Laacher See eruption.[12] However, an improved dating of the onset of the Younger Dryas in Europe, published in 2021, showed that it began about 200 years after the eruption, ruling it out as a potential cause.[13]