[Explorer89]

I had not heard of Thera before now, so I checked wikipedia, and it discusses pinpointing the date of the eruption using artifacts, and one single olive tree found under the ash. Nothing about a super eruption. What is the controversy?

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this reply is for your reply of 1/15/2012. Sorry for the long delay.

Here are some of the FR topics about that:

• New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620s age for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption
• ARCHAEOLOGY: New Carbon Dates Support Revised History of Ancient Mediterranean
• Olive branch solves a Bronze Age mystery
• Ancient Volcano, Seeds And Treerings, Suggest Rewriting Late Bronze Age Mediterranean History (More)
• Pumace As A Time Witness (Archaeology)
• New analysis on problems between archaeology and pharaonic chronology, based on radiocarbon dating