48401
Accession Number
10095
Title Of Article Chaper
Methodological viewpoints on middle Minoan chronology
Title Of Journal Book
Opuscula Atheniensia
Volume
7
Pages
87-90
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Discusses the foundations for the chronology of the Middle Minoan Bronze Age. Carbon-14 dates are regarded as useless for exact dating of the Aegean Bronze Age. The average corrected <sub>14</sub>C dates for the destruction of Thera 1688 ± 57 B.C. are compared with historical dates (ca 1475 B.C.). Corrected <sub>14</sub>C dates for the Aegean Bronze Age are generally about 200 years toohigh, if Albright's chronology of the first dynasty of Babylon is followed. -- AATA
pub_id
48401