Bronze Age myths? Volcanic activity and human response in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic regions.

From: Antiquity | Date: September 1, 1997| Author: Buckland, Paul C.; Dugmore, Andrew J.; Edwards, Kevin J. | Copyright information

The Late Bronze Aegean island of Santorini is a settlement whose destruction by a major volcanic eruption has been linked to the end of Minoan Crete. The occurrence of this eruption has been a controversial point. Santorini's destruction and the hypothesized impact of the eruption of an Icelandic volcano named Hekla on a Middle Bronze age settlement in upland Britain are compared. Attempts to date the volcanic eruptions which destroyed both settlements in terms of ice-core acidity peaks and n...

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