@article{2f39cec0452e4590be304503a46945d6,
title = "Annual radiocarbon record indicates 16th century BCE date for the Thera eruption",
abstract = "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 more clearly define the limitations for radiocarbon calibration of materials from key eruption contexts. Results show an offset from the international radiocarbon calibration curve, which indicates a shift in the calibrated age range for Thera toward the 16th century BCE. This finding sheds new light on the long-running debate focused on a discrepancy between radiocarbon (late 17th–early 16th century BCE) and archaeological (mid 16th–early 15th century BCE) dating evidence for Thera.",
author = "Pearson, {Charlotte L.} and Brewer, {Peter W.} and David Brown and Heaton, {Timothy J.} and Hodgins, {Gregory W.L.} and {Timothy Jull}, {A. J.} and Todd Lange and Salzer, {Matthew W.}",
note = "Funding Information: work on sample preparation and AMS analysis at the University of Arizona AMS Laboratory. C.L.P. and T.J.H. thank other members of the IntCal Working Group for discussions regarding the data, in particular, P. Reimer, A. Bayliss, A. Hogg, B. Kromer, H. van der Plicht and L. Wacker. We thank P. G. Blackwell and C. Bronk Ramsey for advice on calibration statistics and M. Baillie, P. Fischer, D. Frank, J. Heinemeier, M. Hughes, J. Pilcher, P. Kuniholm, S. Kuhn, T. Wazny, and M. Wiener for other helpful discussions. This work was funded by the University of Arizona, the Malcolm H. Wiener Foundation, the Merops Foundation, and anonymous donor support as part of the Interdisciplinary Chronology of Civilizations Project (ICCP; principal investigator, C.L.P.). A.J.T.J. also acknowledges personal support from the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the project GINOP-2.3.2.-15-2016-00009 “ICER.” Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2018 The Authors,",
year = "2018",
month = aug,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1126/sciadv.aar8241",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "4",
journal = "Science advances",
issn = "2375-2548",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "8",
}