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.
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."
