Posted on 03/22/2014 4:46:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a recent international study, the volcano of the island Santorini, Greece, erupted in the 16th century BC and not earlier. The survey characterized a number of research studies that took place in the past and have indicated that Santorini's volcano may have erupted a century earlier, as unreliable because the method based on tree-ring measurements that they used, could not provide them with accurate results.
An international team of researchers led by Paolo Cherubini from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) has demonstrated in the scientific journal Antiquity, that this method cannot provide reliable results. The scientists show that the [Carbon 14] dating of individual pieces of olive wood enveloped by volcanic ash is too unreliable for precise dating...
The question whether this natural disaster occurred 3,500 or 3,600 years ago is of great historiographical importance and has indeed at times been the subject of heated discussion among experts. The traditional belief that the volcano erupted during the 16th century BC, seems to be confirmed by this new study.
(Excerpt) Read more at greece.greekreporter.com ...
Great thread, guys. Thanks!
Favourite subject. Always fascinating to see how the landscape agrees with the legends.
(10 months later) My pleasure! And thanks for the kind remark!
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