FAH206H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 34: Luminescence, Mount Vesuvius

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Eruption of thera/santorini oxford handbook of the bronze age aegean the world is captured forever in a specific time during a large volcanic eruption famous example is eruption of vesuvius of ad 79 covering pompeii. The prehistory buried by the volcano on thera was recognized in late 19th. Unique finds at akrotiri large town of buildings preserved to several stories, millions of artifacts and wall paintings. Relative date towards the end of the late minoan (lm) ia period. Absolute date traditional approach = find exports/imports from egypt and estimate the. Any time before than is hard to estimate because there"s no evidence from. Archaeology no key archaeological evidence has turned up yet. Found painting fragments that are minoan type. They seem to be in the earlier range but they are still late lm. There are many items that don"t really help out with the dating process.

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