The most direct and precise radiocarbon date for the Minoan eruption of Santorini

Walter L. Friedrich; Jan Heinemeier

The most direct and precise radiocarbon date for the Minoan eruption of Santorini

Bidragets oversatte titel: Den mest direkte og præzise radiokarbon datering af det Minoiske udbrud fra Santorini

Publikation: Konferencebidrag › Konferenceabstrakt til konference › Forskning

Abstract

Geologist and archaeologists have a special interest in knowing the precise date of the Minoan eruption, because its tephra provides a synchronous time marker in the Eastern Mediterranean: If one knows the precise date of the Minoan eruption at one point of the tephra layer, the entire layer is dated. That means that all archaeological objects that are in direct and undisturbed contact with this marker horizon have the same, known age. An ideal tree sample from an olive tree, buried alive in the ash of the eruption on Santorini, provides the most direct and precise radiocarbon date for the Minoan eruption. Together with a second olive tree, excavated only 9 meters from the first one, it enables us to repeat the earlier measurements of the first tree 2006 (Friedrich, W.L . Kromer, B Friedrich, M. Heinemeier, J. Pfeiffer, T. Talamo, S. Santorini Eruption Radiocarbon Dated to 1627-1600 BC. Science 312
(5773), 2006, 548.) and refine them by adding new information from both trees.
The AMS Laboratories Heidelberg/Mannheim, Vienna, Oxford, Aarhus/Seattle and the Dendro Laboratory at Hohenheim have participated in the new dating round. At present, the result is not yet ready, but it seems to confirm the measurement obtained in 2006 using wiggle matching on the data obtained on a conventional radiocarbon instrument in Heidelberg.

Bidragets oversatte titel	Den mest direkte og præzise radiokarbon datering af det Minoiske udbrud fra Santorini
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	10 okt. 2012
Antal sider	1
Status	Udgivet - 10 okt. 2012
Begivenhed	VOLSAM2012: International conference: Vocanism of the Southern Aegean in the Frame of the broader Mediterranean Area - Fira, Santorini, Grækenland Varighed: 10 okt. 2012 → 12 okt. 2012

Konference

Konference	VOLSAM2012
Land/Område	Grækenland
By	Fira, Santorini
Periode	10/10/2012 → 12/10/2012

Emneord

Santorini, Thera, Radiocarbon dating, Olive trees, Minoan eruption

Adgang til dokumentet

http://volsam2012.conferences.gr/volsam2012-program.html

Citationsformater

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