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To: SunkenCiv
When do you think was the eruption...these days?

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

Do you?

12 posted on 11/24/2022 9:51:54 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

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/


13 posted on 11/24/2022 10:33:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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