A test of time and a test of time revisited : the volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid-second millennium BC / Sturt W. Manning.

"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 BC is proposed"--

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Main Author: Manning, Sturt W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: a test of time. Introduction
  • A brief history of the Thera debate
  • Aims and preliminary issues for this study
  • Archaeological and historical evidence
  • Absolute dating evidence
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Some implications, and the problem of dating Alalakh VII
  • Appendix 1: Egyptian chronology
  • Appendix 2: Why the standard chronologies are approximately correct, and why radical re-datings are therefore incorrect.