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New evidence for an early date for the Aegean Late Bronze Age and Thera eruption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sturt W. Manning ,
Christopher Bronk Ramsey ,
Christos Doumas ,
Toula Marketou ,
Gerald Cadogan  and
Charlotte L. Pearson
Sturt W. Manning
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Whiteknights PO Box 227, Reading RG6 6AB, England. S.W.Manning@reading.ac.uk
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
Christos Doumas
Affiliation:
Archaeological Society of Athens, Excavations at Akrotiri, Thera, Tholou 10, Athens 105 56, Greece
Toula Marketou
Affiliation:
22nd Ephorate of Prehistoric & Classical Antiquities of Dodekanese, Argyrokastrou Square, Rhodes 851 00, Greece
Gerald Cadogan
Affiliation:
Old Rectory, Culworth, Banbury OX17 2AT, England
Charlotte L. Pearson
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Whiteknights PO Box 227, Reading RG6 6AB, England. S.W.Manning@reading.ac.uk
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The authors report on radiocarbon data derived from carefully selected organic material from Late Minoan IA and IB contexts. The results suggest that the accepted chronology of the period should be revised by 100 years and that the eruption of Thera/Santorini most likely occurred c. 1650–1620 BC.

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radiocarbonLate Bronze AgeTheraLate Minoanchronology
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 293 , September 2002 , pp. 733 - 744
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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