[Natural Law]

I have been to both Santorini and Pompeii and have seen the similarity of effect of the two volcanic events. When the material immediately below the volcanic material is carbon dated to a point in time, plus or minus a reasonable measurement error, I am pretty comfortable that the dating is correct. Pompeii happened in 79 AD and Thera about 1628 BC.

[SunkenCiv]

Here ya go:

http://www.therafoundation.org/articles/chronololy/radiocarbondatesfromthesiteofakrotirithera19671977

[snip] ...carbonized “fava” beans from a mining installation between the villages of Akrotiri and Meghalochori. The latter sample was found in a large jug buried beneath a layer of pumice at the edge of the preciptous side of the caldera. It dated to 1420 - 1400 ± 60 B.C. [end]