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The volcanic eruption of Santorini was the greatest in historical times. Assigned to the Late Minoan IA period, archaeological correlations implied a date late in the 16th century BC. Yet indirect natural science evidence suggested a date in the 17th century. The dating ceased to be indirect when branches of olive trees were found buried in the debris of the eruption. The radiocarbon Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) dating technique and the intcal04 calibration curve suggested a two-sigma range date between 1600 and 1627 BC. The debate continues; the papers here cover the radiocarbon results, the ice cores, the geology, and the archaeology, offering in-depth access to a controversy linking the natural sciences and the humanities. Aside from volcanologists, it will interest scholars of Bronze Age Aegean archaeology, the chronology of the eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium BC, archaeological methodology, the principles of radiocarbon dating and its application to Bronze Age sources.
Contents
General introduction; The Minoan eruption of Santorini radiocarbon dated to 1613 +/- 13 BC; Volcanic chronology of Santorini; The eruption within the debate about the date; The effects of the Minoan eruption; Evidence from Pseira for the Santorini eruption; The impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini on Mochlos; Papadiokambos: new evidence for the impact of the Theran eruption; The basis for the Egyptian dates; How uncertain is Mesopotamian chronology?; Thera, Hatshepsut & the Keftiu: crisis & response; The Thera eruption & Egypt: pumice, texts & chronology; The date of the Late Bronze Age eruption of Santorini; Aegean-Egyptian synchronisms & radiocarbon chronology; 197 The state of the debate about the date of the Theran eruption; Beyond the Santorini eruption; The dating of the earlier Late Minoan IA period; Chronological conundrums: Cypriot & Levantine imports from Thera; The chronology of Tell el-Ajjul, Gaza; An update on the chronological value of Minoica in the Levant & Cyprus; 14C & 10Be around 1650 cal BC; The Minoan eruption of Santorini radiocarbon dated; Epilogue.
