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A test of time : the volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid second millennium BC / Sturt W. Manning.
- Title
- A test of time : the volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid second millennium BC / Sturt W. Manning.
- Author
- Manning, Sturt W.
- Publication
- Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, c1999.
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- Description
- xxxiii, 494 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The eruption of Thera represents a special, clearly defined, moment in Aegean and east Mediterranean prehistory. If the eruption could be precisely dated, it would offer a unique linchpin for the study and synchronisation of the history and cultures of the region in the mid-second millennium B.C. Further, it would provide a key test for the historical chronology of ancient Egypt (as determined by two centuries of scholarship) and the derived archaeological chronologies currently employed in the Aegean and east Mediterranean." "This book seeks a resolution of the Thera date, and related archaeological chronologies, based on a critical review of all current archaeological and scientific data. A new 'early' chronology for the Aegean c.1700-1400 B.C. is proposed."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid second millennium BC
- Subject
- Eruption
- Bronze age > Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
- Volcanoes > Santorini Island
- Bronze age > Aegean Sea Region
- Civilization, Aegean > Chronology
- Santorini Volcano (Greece) > Eruptions
- Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) > Antiquities
- Aegean Sea Region > Antiquities
- Santorini Island (Greece) > Antiquities
- Greece > Antiquities
- Genre/Form
- Chronologies
- Chronologies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-479) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. Introduction -- II. A brief history of the Thera debate -- III. Aims and preliminary issues for this study -- IV. Archaeological and historical evidence -- V. Absolute dating evidence -- VI. Summary and conclusions -- VII. Some implications, and the problem of dating Alalakh VII -- Appendices.
- ISBN
- 1900188996
- OCLC
- 44179744
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library