Radiocarbon Dates from the Site of Akrotiri, Thera, 1967 - 1977: Addendum
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Through the good offices of Dr. Christos Doumas, five additional samples were obtained. All were secured in 1976 and came from Room 5 in the West House, that is, from the destruction level. They comprise the 2700 series and are the five last entries on the graph.
Unfortunately, the same sort of picture emerged as previously, again compounded by the fact that three of the five samples were undersized. Of the remaining two, one (P - 2794) confirms the traditional date, the other (P - 2791) an earlier date. The dates of two of the undersized samples (P - 2793 and P - 2795) span both the traditional date and the earlier date originally proposed by me - and thus lose significance.
P - 2792 is aberrant, as were the two samples in the 2500 series (P - 2560 and P - 2561).
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| For graph please refer to book. | |
| Graph mentioned in this paper: | |
| Graph: | Samples from the destruction level of Akrotiri and their C-14 dates. |
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| Source: | "Thera and the Aegean World II" |
| Papers and Proceedings of the Second International Scientific Congress, Santorini, Greece, August 1978. | |
| Pages: | pp. 245 - 246 |
| Written by: | H.N. Michael |
| University Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA. | |
| Book information: | |
| ©Thera and the Aegean World | |
| ISBN: | 0 9506133 2 0 |
| Published by: | Thera and the Aegean World, 105-109 Bishopsgate, London EC2M |
| Editor: | C. Doumas |
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