Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption

Abstract The precise date of the 2nd millennium BCE (“Minoan”) eruption of Thera (Santorini) has long been a focus of controversy due to a discrepancy between archaeological and radiocarbon-based dating of materials from stratigraphic layers above and below tsunami, ash and pumice deposits resulting...

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Main Authors: Charlotte Pearson, Kostas Sbonias, Iris Tzachili, Timothy J. Heaton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w