Santorini Eruption Radiocarbon Dated to 1627-1600 B.C.

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“Since we may now remove the Porsuk tree-ring growth anomaly from this discussion (see above), all the scientific dating evidence could therefore indicate a likely date for the Santorini/Thera eruption in the later 17th century BCE potentially compatible with the 1628–1626 BCE range (e.g. [66, 68, 69, 78–81, 89–92]).”

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“The uncalibrated radiocarbon date of the outermost tree rings, 3331 ± 10 BP (Hd-23588/24402)”

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“Despite numerous efforts to pin down this date through archaeological evidence linked to the Egyptian chronology and by 14 C dating, no consensus between both methods has yet been reached (Baiter 2006;Friedrich et al. 2006Friedrich et al. ,2009;;Manning et al. 2006Manning et al. , 2009a;;Bietak and Höflmayer 2007;Wiener 2009;Bruins 2010;Bietak 2012).”

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“Both the olive tree (Friedrich et al. 2006) and samples from the volcanic destruction layer in Akrotiri (Manning et al. 2006) grew far away from known volcanic vents; therefore, a dead carbon contribution is unlikely for these samples.”

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“All 3 14 C results point to a Santorini eruption date in the second half of the 17th century BC.”

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“The data in this study, as well as for the original Santorini olive27, show an old to young gradient in terms of radiocarbon measurement from inner to outer-most sample, with radiocarbon ages approximately supporting growth increment counts.”

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“The uncalibrated radiocarbon measurements derived from the Therasia olive (Table 1) are broadly consistent with determinations for the Santorini olive27.”

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“The sequence of four radiocarbon measurements from the Santorini olive branch ( 10 ) has the advantage of representing a period of time rather than the single season (or range of single seasons) represented by other Thera relevant samples.”

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“Many of the existing radiocarbon determinations have been recalibrated multiple times, with calibrations to older iterations of IntCal [for example, ( 3 , 10 )] returning probability distributions ranging into the 16th century because of a slight shift in the position of a well-described ( 3 ) radiocarbon plateau in the calibration curve.”

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“Our priors are, however, the correct choices if one ' s stated intention is to remove any constraint on the ring counting altogether and because the selection (number and location) of samples within the olive tree was not random but designed ( 10 ).”

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“The second series is from an olive (Olea europaea) branch section where 14 C dates are available from an ordered sequence from inner to outer growth segments [80,81].”

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“The end Boundary for the Sequence is regarded as the estimate for the date of the outermost growth increment of the original branch/tree and so the date for, or very close TPQ for, the Thera eruption (that likely killed and buried the tree [80, 81, 146])”

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“The wood segments 14 C-dated across the olive branch from Thera in [80] come from a growth node (see [80] at Fig 1), and thus not only progress from older to more recent in a temporal sequence [80,81,146]”

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“In the case of the olive branch, we may note one additional important element: The dates on the sample were run as LLGPC measurements at the Hd 14C laboratory (58).”

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“Since the 14 C ages on a section of olive wood found buried by the eruption (Friedrich et al. 2006) are also consistent with the dating offered by the short-lived samples from Akrotiri”

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“Such a date accords well with the date range suggested for the last growth increment of an olive tree branch plausibly killed and buried by the Santorini eruption (Friedrich et al. 2006;Friedrich and Heinemeier 2009;Manning et al. 2009:312, Table 3; Manning 2010:465; Manning et al. 2010: Figure 14, Table 8).”

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“A wiggle-match for these 4 dates based on the published results indicates a date between 1621 and 1605 cal BC (1σ, 68.2% probability).”