Dating the Thera (Santorini) eruption

Autor(en)

Sturt W. Manning, Felix Hoeflmayer, Nadine Moeller, Michael W. Dee, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Dominik Fleitmann, Thomas Higham, Walter Kutschera, Eva Maria Wild

Abstrakt

The date of the Late Bronze Age Minoan eruption of the Thera volcano has provoked much debate among archaeologists, not least in a recent issue of Antiquity (Bronze Age catastrophe and modern controversy: dating the Santorini eruption', March 2014). Here, the authors respond to those recent contributions, citing evidence that closes the gap between the conclusions offered by previous typological, strati graphic and radiometric dating techniques. They reject the need to choose between alternative approaches to the problem and make a case for the synchronisation. of eastern Mediterranean and Egyptian chronologies with agreement on a 'high' date in the late seventeenth century BC for the Thera eruption.

Organisation(en)

Isotopenphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

Cornell University, University of Chicago, University of Oxford, University of Reading

Journal

Antiquity

Band

88

Seiten

1164-1179

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

0003-598X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00115388

Publikationsdatum

12-2014

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103014 Kernphysik, 601003 Archäologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Arts and Humanities(all), Archaeology

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/dating-the-thera-santorini-eruption(298d4be0-f04f-4c76-8c1f-9c7023c19c87).html