Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption
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...
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ftunivarizona:oai:repository.arizona.edu:10150/673848 2024-09-15T18:12:01+00:00 Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption Pearson, C. Sbonias, K. Tzachili, I. Heaton, T.J. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona Geosciences, University of Arizona Anthropology, University of Arizona 2023-04-28 http://hdl.handle.net/10150/673848 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w en eng Nature Research Pearson, C., Sbonias, K., Tzachili, I. et al. Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption. Sci Rep 13, 6994 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w 2045-2322 37117199 doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w http://hdl.handle.net/10150/673848 Scientific Reports © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scientific Reports Article text 2023 ftunivarizona https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w 2024-08-12T23:39:50Z 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. © 2023, The Author(s). Open access journal This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. Article in Journal/Newspaper ice core The University of Arizona: UA Campus Repository Scientific Reports 13 1 |
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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. © 2023, The Author(s). Open access journal This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. |
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Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption |
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Pearson, C., Sbonias, K., Tzachili, I. et al. Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption. Sci Rep 13, 6994 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w 2045-2322 37117199 doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w http://hdl.handle.net/10150/673848 Scientific Reports |
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