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http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7093518&maindocimg=1564949&service=100The date of the Thera eruption still not settled.1613 ( +/- 10 years ) radio carbon of olive branches or after 1530 by history/archaelogy/chronology .Physical science versus historical science .Turanclancath
Tory wrote:Bernd Kromer, one of the authors of the Science piece, assures methat the C14 date given to the Santorini olive branch, 1613 BCE (with a confidence of 95.4% between 1627 and 1600 BCE), is a nail in the coffin after so many other carbon dated short-lived samples collected from before, around, and after the eruption confirm the result.David replies:So the C-14 guys are 95.4% confident that the 1613 BC date (+/- 13years) is the final nail in the coffin for those of us doubting theradio-carbon date for the destruction of Akrotiri? Interesting.Tory, do you think you could find out from your colleague, BerndKromer, what his explanation is for the fact that modern samplesfrom Santorini were tested a few years ago and C-14 dated to circa 1100 AD?Only out by nearly 1000 years I know - but whose counting?The 95% confidence you refer to is surely to do with the 2-sigmastatistics of the test and does not account for any theoretical 'oldcarbon' aging of the sample as a direct result of being buried invented old carbon ash from the eruption for several thousand years.No C-14 results from materials retrieved from volcanic ash deposits, or even growing in an active volcanic terrain with gaseous venting(such as modern Santorni), can be published with 95% confidence. When I was last on Nea Kameni (the new volcanic cone of Santorini) I aged at least five years in a couple of hours.Incidentally, as I am sure you know, Professor Bietak is just asconfident that Thera erupted in the time of Thutmose III, circa 1450BC in the OC. And he doesn't have to worry about the 'old carbon'effect.Regards,David.
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