2009. október 13., kedd

Könyv a thérai vulkánkitörés dátumáról

Az egész ókori keleti és egyiptomi kronológiát érintő thérai vulkánkitörés eleddig sem éppen habkönnyűen egyszerű témája most új problémával és ehhez kapcsolódóan egy új konferencia-kötettel gazdagodott. Minden kiderül a könyv leírásából:

David A. Warburton (ed.): Time’s Up! Dating the Minoan eruption of Santorini.
Acts of the Minoan Eruption Chronology Workshop, Sandbjerg November 2007 on initiative of Jan Heinemeier & Walter L. Friedrich.
Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 10. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 298 pages, hardbound, DKK 318

(szerzők: Walter L. Friedrich & Jan Heinemeier, Philip P. Betancourt, Max Bichler, Thomas M. Brogan, Peter M. Fischer, Karen Polinger Foster, Hermann Hunger, Felix Höflmayer, Rolf Krauss, Bernd Kromer, Alexander R. McBirney, Floyd W. McCoy, J. Alexander MacGillivray, Sturt W. Manning, Robert Merrillees, Raimund Muscheler, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nikolaos Sigalas, Chrysa Sofianou, Jeffrey S. Soles, Georg Steinhauser, Johannes H. Sterba, Annette Højen Sørensen, Peter Warren, Malcolm H. Wiener)

The volcanic eruption of Santorini was the greatest in historical times. Assigned to the Late Minoan IA period, archaeological correlations implied a date late in the 16th century BC. Yet indirect natural science evidence suggested a date in the 17th century. The dating ceased to be indirect when branches of olive trees were found buried in the debris of the eruption. The radiocarbon Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) dating technique and the intcal04 calibration curve suggested a two-sigma range date between 1600 and 1627 BC. The debate continues; the papers here cover the radiocarbon results, the ice cores, the geology, and the archaeology, offering in-depth access to a controversy linking the natural sciences and the humanities. Aside from volcanologists, it will interest scholars of Bronze Age Aegean archaeology, the chronology of the eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium BC, archaeological methodology, the principles of radiocarbon dating and its application to Bronze Age sources.

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