Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption
Abstract The precise date of the 2nd millennium BCE (“Minoan”) eruption of Thera (Santorini) has long been a focus of controversy due to a discrepancy between archaeological and radiocarbon-based dating of materials from stratigraphic layers above and below tsunami, ash and pumice deposits resulting...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:46bbafce737a47ff9dbb60322db747ba 2023-06-11T04:12:41+02:00 Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption Charlotte Pearson Kostas Sbonias Iris Tzachili Timothy J. Heaton 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w https://doaj.org/article/46bbafce737a47ff9dbb60322db747ba EN eng Nature Portfolio https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322 doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w 2045-2322 https://doaj.org/article/46bbafce737a47ff9dbb60322db747ba Scientific Reports, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2023) Medicine R Science Q article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w 2023-05-07T00:36:04Z Abstract The precise date of the 2nd millennium BCE (“Minoan”) eruption of Thera (Santorini) has long been a focus of controversy due to a discrepancy between archaeological and radiocarbon-based dating of materials from stratigraphic layers above and below tsunami, ash and pumice deposits resulting from the eruption. A critical, though controversial, piece of evidence has been four segments of a radiocarbon-dated olive tree branch, buried on Thera during the eruption. Here we report new radiocarbon evidence from an olive shrub found carbonized by the same eruption deposits on neighboring Therasia (Santorini). The Therasia olive shrub dates slightly younger than the previous olive branch. Calibrated results and growth increment counts indicate increased probabilities for a mid-16th century BCE date for the eruption, overlapping with multiple volcanic sulfate markers from ice core records. Article in Journal/Newspaper ice core Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Scientific Reports 13 1 |
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Abstract The precise date of the 2nd millennium BCE (“Minoan”) eruption of Thera (Santorini) has long been a focus of controversy due to a discrepancy between archaeological and radiocarbon-based dating of materials from stratigraphic layers above and below tsunami, ash and pumice deposits resulting from the eruption. A critical, though controversial, piece of evidence has been four segments of a radiocarbon-dated olive tree branch, buried on Thera during the eruption. Here we report new radiocarbon evidence from an olive shrub found carbonized by the same eruption deposits on neighboring Therasia (Santorini). The Therasia olive shrub dates slightly younger than the previous olive branch. Calibrated results and growth increment counts indicate increased probabilities for a mid-16th century BCE date for the eruption, overlapping with multiple volcanic sulfate markers from ice core records. |
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Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption |
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