The Theran eruption and Minoan palatial collapse: new interpretations gained from modelling the maritime network
Abstract
What was the effect on Late Minoan civilisation of the catastrophic destruction of Akrotiri on Thera (Santorini) by volcanic eruption? Not much, according to the evidence for continuing prosperity on Crete. But the authors mobilise their ingenious mathematical model (published in Antiquity 82: 1009–1024), this time to show that the effects of removing a major port of call could have impacted after an interval, as increased costs of transport gradually led to ever fewer routes and eventual economic collapse.
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The long-term systemic impacts of the evisceration of Thera will have significantly impacted the whole area and necessarily led to substantial reconfiguration of regional networks and histories.
“the long-term systemic impacts of the evisceration of Thera, and what had been a major port and hub in the Aegean region until that time, will have significantly impacted the whole area, and necessarily led to substantial reconfiguration of regional networks and histories [3,17,202]”
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Bruins, H. J., MacGillivray, J. A., Synolakis, C. E., Benjamini, C., Keller, J., Kisch, H. J., Klügel, A., & van der Plicht, J. (2008) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2007.08.017 · Cited by 193 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Knappett, C., Rivers, R., & Evans, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2011-08
- Volume
- 85
- Issue
- 329
- Pages
- 1008-1023
- ISSN
- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
- OpenAlex
- W2119751889
- Cited by
- 140
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 50.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Antiquity (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Keywords
- Thera eruption, Santorini, Akrotiri, maritime networks, transportation costs, economic collapse, port calls, mathematical modeling, Crete
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