Greek volcano mystery: Archaeologist narrows on date of Thera eruption

Buncha Thera- and dendrochronology keywords, combined, sorted, duplicates out, with some of the most pertinent topics up top:

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Dating the Ancient Minoan Eruption of Thera Using Tree Rings [08/16/2018]
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Climate change caused empire's fall, tree rings reveal [05/31/2014]
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Atlantis: The Evidence [ Thera, Crete, the usual modern myths ] [05/20/2012]
New analysis on problems between archaeology and pharaonic chronology, based on radiocarbon dating [06/17/2010]
Biblical plagues really happened say scientists [ Thera, global warming, yada yada yada ] [03/30/2010]
How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite History [10/28/2007]
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The mystery of the 'blue monkeys' in ancient Grecian frescoes, solved [04/27/2020]
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Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii - part 4 [07/21/2013]
Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii - part 3 [07/20/2013]
Akrotiri, Santorini: the Minoan Pompeii - part 2 [07/07/2013]
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Lord Monckton's summary of Climategate and its issues [12/02/2009]
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The Alarmists Do "Science": A Case Study [11/21/2009]
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Real Tsunami May Have Inspired Legend of Atlantis [10/10/2009]
Mann Climate Tree Ring Studies Falsified Data [09/30/2009]
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Greek archaeological site reburied [ Akrotiri Santorini ] [08/04/2008]
Geology Pictures of the Week, June 29-July 5, 2008: Thera (Santorini) unusual view [07/01/2008]
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Mega-Tsunami Theory Disputed (Australia) [02/03/2008]
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The wave that destroyed Atlantis [Destroyed by a giant tsunami?] [04/22/2007]
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Moses' Comet [10/09/2005]
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Memory in Ruins [Biblical Archaeology] [12/01/2003]
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(Prince) Madoc In America [07/10/2003]
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Did Asteroids And Comets Turn The Tides Of Civilization? [07/11/2002]
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I'm sure we had a similar article (not about Manning) a couple of years ago, but couldn't turn it up. For once, I'm going to spare you my usual great big dump all over the mid-2nd m supereruption myth. Thanks anonymous FReeper for the link! And it's a two-fer!

One of *those* topics.

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Had a neighbor named Thera. Sweet lady, great neighbor....but don’t get her mad because she would erupt!

And to the dates:

The modeling identified the most likely range of dates for the eruption to be: between about 1609-1560 BCE (95.4% probability), or about 1606-1589 BCE (68.3% probability).

The new timeline synchronizes the civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean while also ruling out several ancillary theories, such as the idea that the Thera eruption was responsible for destroying Minoan palaces on the coast of Crete as the first excavator of Akrotiri, Spyridon Marinatos, proposed in 1939.

"That seems not to be the case," Manning said. "Because when we date the destruction levels on Crete, they seem to be upwards of a century later."

Selections from the Aegean keyword, sorted:

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Vast tunnel found beneath ancient Egyptian temple [aqueduct] [11/08/2022]
Therasia: the new excavation finds from the prehistoric settlement [11/07/2021]
Archaeologists find theater toilet in western Turkey's Smyrna [also found, long line of skeletons waiting since the beginning of intermission] [11/07/2021]
Greece's first underwater museum opens ancient world to dive tourists [07/25/2021]
20 million year-old fossilized tree found on the island of Lesvos [04/05/2021]
Greece to Open First Underwater Museum in Alonissos [Alonnisos shipwreck] [07/15/2020]
Egypt announces international anti-Turkey alliance [06/01/2020]
[2019] Ancient shipwrecks discovered off Greek island of Levitha [between Amorgos and Leros] [04/21/2020]
Tree rings could pin down Thera volcano eruption date [03/30/2020]
Scientists find early humans moved through Mediterranean earlier than believed [10/20/2019]
Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilization [09/16/2019]
4th century BC Mazotos shipwreck yields Chian amphorae and rich finds about shipbuilding history [12/28/2018]
Santorini volcano explosion dates changed: Piece of olive tree found on Thirasia changes everything [10/22/2018]
Farmer Discovers Rare Tombstone from Late Minoan III Period on Crete [08/18/2018]
Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean [05/05/2018]
Complex engineering and metal-work discovered beneath ancient Greek 'pyramid' [01/18/2018]
Controversial footprint discovery suggests human-like creatures may have roamed Crete [09/01/2017]
Ancient Greek 'computer' came with a user guide [07/02/2016]
The Last Days of Hattusa [06/27/2016]
Monastery new discovery in underground city in Cappadocia [06/26/2016]
The World's First Computer May Have Been Used To Tell Fortunes [Engraved text translation] [06/10/2016]
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World War Zero brought down mystery civilisation of 'sea people' [05/13/2016]
Early Written Signs [02/14/2016]
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Archaeologists discover secret tunnel in ancient Hittite castle [10/21/2015]
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Archaeological team prepares 4,000-year-old Hittite meals [09/14/2015]
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Return to Antikythera: Divers revisit wreck where ancient computer found [10/04/2012]
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Warning signs from ancient Greek tsunami [05/14/2012]
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Lost city found in Turkey: It is older than Troy [09/27/2011]
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Hittite winds blow in Istanbul [05/19/2006]
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antikytheramechanism [keyword]

Thanks, and this has been clear for years, it’s nice that Manning’s starting to fall off the bandwagon a little.

"The Fiery and Volcanic Birth of Santorini"

[click the pic]

So this means that the flushing toilets they found in the ruins of Akrotiri on Santorini are even older than originally thought.

Greek Volcano?

That could cause a Greece fire.

Best line in the whole article: “”This demonstrates, as with so much of science, that people have to make hypotheses based on the initial information, but as you get more and more information and better analysis, you revise and refine,”

Imagine....really following the scientific method.....

He did that himself, regarding a pumice artifact from the Egyptian New Kingdom — saddling on the idea that it was from Thera, and it turned out to have come from the Kos volcano which had its last eruption 10s of 1000s of years ago. :^)

When do you think was the eruption...these days?

I can't remember what dates we used to fuss about?

Do you?

As Manning (finally) acknowledges, the Minoan collapse was clearly not temporally related to the (imaginary) supereruption.

The caldera has been known to be prehistoric, and this has been known for a long time.

The (prehistoric) collapse of the caldera was to the west, more or less right toward mainland Greece, not at Anatolia, and not at Crete. Looking in those places for evidence of the tsunami is wild goose chase.

There was no supereruption in the 2nd m BC. That idea is related to the goofy equating of Thera or Crete with Atlantis.

Zangger notes that, when evidence is presented at Thera conferences, refuting the core belief, other participants double down on it.

Herodotus says rather a lot about the island (Calliste in ancient times, Santorini in modern times) and never mentions anything about an eruption. The only ancient source that does suggests a date circa 200 BC. Herodotus lived before that, which probably explains it. For that matter, Plato lived before 200 BC.

Adapted Latin terms show up in Linear B sources, and the Roman conquest of Greece was something like 207 BC. Mycenaean cultural elements IOW were still alive long after the supposed demise of the Age of Heroes.

Other than that, we’re in complete agreement. [/rimshot!]

;^)

Maps of Santorini:

https://search.brave.com/images?q=map%20of%20santorini

Relief map, with north at the bottom for some reason:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/gp1lo9/relief_map_of_santorini/

"Even when, during the respective Thera Conferences, individual scientists had pointed out that the magnitude and significance of the Thera eruption must be estimated as less than previously thought, the conferences acted to strengthen the original hypothesis. The individual experts believed that the arguments advanced by their colleagues were sound, and that the facts of a natural catastrophe were not in doubt... All three factors reflect a fantasy world rather than cool detachment, which is why it so difficult to refute the theory with rational arguments." -- Eberhard Zangger, "The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century", pp 49-50.

[snip] Pliny described the changes in land and sea distribution. "Land is sometimes formed . . . rising suddenly out of the sea. Delos and Rhodes, islands which have now been long famous, are recorded to have risen up in this way. More lately there have been some smaller islands formed," and he names them: Anapha, Nea, Halone, Thera, Therasia, Hiera, and Thia, the last of which appeared in his own time. [/snip] -- The Dark Age of Greece, "Changes in Land and Sea"

Volcanic eruption may have forced ancient Egyptians to abandon a city [03/21/2022]

Nope.

Nope. But the Cycladic culture that built Akrotiri laid two separate water systems, apparently one for hot water from the island’s geothermal sources, and one for cold water. The waste pipe went somewhere, probably into the sea. For its era, it was a real maritime boomtown going back into the Neolithic.

“Nope”

Was that story not about the volcanic eruption in your article?

Sorry if it was misinformation.

I appreciated the link, but the dating and magnitude of the eruption is the issue.