• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1125682
• Corpus ID: 21557268

Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age 1700-1400 B.C.

@article{Manning2006ChronologyFT,
  title={Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age 1700-1400 B.C.},
  author={Sturt W. Manning and Christopher Bronk Ramsey and Walter Kutschera and Thomas F.G. Higham and Bernd Kromer and Peter Steier and Eva Maria Wild},
  journal={Science},
  year={2006},
  volume={312},
  pages={565 - 569}
}

• S. Manning, C. Ramsey, +4 authors E. Wild
• Published 28 April 2006
• History
• Science

Radiocarbon (carbon-14) data from the Aegean Bronze Age 1700–1400 B.C. show that the Santorini (Thera) eruption must have occurred in the late 17th century B.C. By using carbon-14 dates from the surrounding region, cultural phases, and Bayesian statistical analysis, we established a chronology for the initial Aegean Late Bronze Age cultural phases (Late Minoan IA, IB, and II). This chronology contrasts with conventional archaeological dates and cultural synthesis: stretching out the Late Minoan IA, IB, and II phases by ∼100 years and requiring reassessment of standard interpretations of associations between the Egyptian and Near Eastern historical dates and phases and those in the Aegean and Cyprus in the mid–second millennium B.C.