Pearson, C, Sbonias, K, Tzachili, I et al. (1 more author) (2023) Olive shrub buried on Therasia supports a mid-16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption. Scientific Reports, 13. 6994. ISSN 2045-2322
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 from the eruption. A critical, though controversial, piece of evidence has been four segments of a radiocarbon-dated olive tree branch, buried on Thera during the eruption. Here we report new radiocarbon evidence from an olive shrub found carbonized by the same eruption deposits on neighboring Therasia (Santorini). The Therasia olive shrub dates slightly younger than the previous olive branch. Calibrated results and growth increment counts indicate increased probabilities for a mid-16th century BCE date for the eruption, overlapping with multiple volcanic sulfate markers from ice core records.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mathematics (Leeds) > Statistics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2023 10:55 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2023 13:55 |
Published Version: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33696-w... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Nature Research |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/s41598-023-33696-w |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:199956 |