Publikationsdatum:
2006-04-29
Beschreibung:
Precise and direct dating of the Minoan eruption of Santorini (Thera) in Greece, a global Bronze Age time marker, has been made possible by the unique find of an olive tree, buried alive in life position by the tephra (pumice and ashes) on Santorini. We applied so-called radiocarbon wiggle-matching to a carbon-14 sequence of tree-ring segments to constrain the eruption date to the range 1627-1600 B.C. with 95.4% probability. Our result is in the range of previous, less precise, and less direct results of several scientific dating methods, but it is a century earlier than the date derived from traditional Egyptian chronologies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Friedrich, Walter L -- Kromer, Bernd -- Friedrich, Michael -- Heinemeier, Jan -- Pfeiffer, Tom -- Talamo, Sahra -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Apr 28;312(5773):548.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Earth Sciences, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus, C.F. Moellers Alle 1120, Denmark. walter@geo.au.dk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16645088" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Schlagwort(e):
*Archaeology
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Carbon Radioisotopes
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Greece
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History, Ancient
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*Olea/growth & development
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*Volcanic Eruptions
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Digitale ISSN:
1095-9203
Thema:
Biologie
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Chemie und Pharmazie
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Informatik
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Medizin
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Allgemeine Naturwissenschaft
,
Physik
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