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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Pearson CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6093623 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20180815 8
The mid-second millennium BCE eruption of Thera (Santorini) offers a critically important marker horizon to synchronize archaeological chronologies of the Aegean, Egypt, and the Near East and to anchor paleoenvironmental records from ice cores, speleothems, and lake sediments. Precise and accurate dating for the event has been the subject of many decades of research. Using calendar-dated tree rings, we created an annual resolution radiocarbon time series 1700-1500 BCE to validate, improve, or mo ...[more]