Time's up! : dating the Minoan eruption of Santorini : acts of the Minoan eruption chronology workshop, Sandbjerg November 2007, initiated by Jan Heinemeier & Walter L. Friedrich / edited by David A. Warburton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedrich, Walter L. (Walter Ludwig), 1938-

Heinemeier, Jan.

Warburton, David.

Series:

Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 1397-1433 ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeological dating--Mediterranean Region--Congresses.

Archaeological dating.

Minoans--History--Chronology--Congresses.

Minoans.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities--Congresses.

Mediterranean Region.

Santorini Volcano (Greece)--Eruptions--Congresses.

Santorini Volcano (Greece).

Santorini Island (Greece)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Santorini Island (Greece).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens : Danish Institute at Athens ; Aarhus : Aarhus University Press [Distr.], 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Front Matter; Front Cover; Title Page; Dedication Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Scientific and technical organizing committee; List of contributors; Editor's preface; Bibliography; General introduction; The Minoan eruption of Santorini radiocarbon dated to 1613 ± 13 bc - geological and stratigraphic considerations; Summary; Introduction; The first olive tree; The date; The second olive tree; The mechanism of the Minoan eruption; How were the olive trees buried in the pumice?; Conclusion; Part I. Evidence, geology, archaeology & chronology; Volcanic chronology of Santorini; Summary

Introduction Geological setting; Eruptive history; Prehistoric record; Characteristics of caldera-forming eruptions; What does the future hold?; The eruption within the debate about the date; Abstract; Introduction; Tectonic setting; Pre-LBA eruption landscape of Santorini; Precursory volcanic activity; The precursor eruption.; Main explosive activity and eruptive phases; Regional effects and consequences of the eruption; Magnitude of the eruption; The Eruption - A global and Minoan perspective; The effects of the Minoan eruption - visible at various archaeological sites on Santorini, Greece

Introduction Earthquakes prior to the eruption; Precursory phase; The first phase of the eruption; The second phase of the eruption; The third phase of the eruption; Conclusion; Evidence from Pseira for the Santorini eruption; The impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini on Mochlos, a small Minoan town on the north coast of Crete; Papadiokambos: new evidence for the impact of the Theran eruption on the northeast coast of Crete; The basis for the Egyptian dates; Introduction; Dead -Reckoning; Synchronisms; Kinglists; Typology & stratigraphy; Radiocarbon; Lunar dates

Sothic dates & solar years Absolute chronology: lunar and sothic dates; Back to late Dyn. XVIII; Conclusions; Chronology, stratigraphy, typology & Tell el-Dabca; How uncertain is Mesopotamian chronology?; The Babylonian system; The Assyrian System; The difficulties begin; Part II. Debate: typology, chronology, methodology; Thera, Hatshepsut, and the Keftiu: crisis and response in Egypt and the Aegean in the mid-second millennium bc; Introduction; Relative date; Timing and effects; Absolute chronology; Keftiu in Egypt; Achaeans/Danaans in Crete; Absolute dates; Epilogue; Acknowledgements

The Thera eruption and Egypt: pumice, texts, and chronology Introduction; Grave 1262, Cemetery K, Maiyana; The Tomb of Maket, Kahun; INAA analyses of Maiyana and Tomb of Maket pumice; Of pumice and time; The Tempest Stele of Ahmose revisited; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; The date of the Late Bronze Age eruption of Santorini; Aegean-Egyptian synchronisms and radiocarbon chronology; Introduction; LH/LM IIIA 1-2 and the end of LM II; Transition from LM IB/LH IIA to LM II/LH IIB; Transition from LM IA/LH I to LM IB/LH IIA; Transition to mature LM IA; Conclusions

The state of the debate about the date of the Theran eruption

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-51).

ISBN:

9788779346529

8779346529

OCLC:

817901452