Ancient pests: the season of the Santorini Minoan volcanic eruption and a date from insect chitin
| Autor: | Anaya Sarpaki, Paul C. Buckland, Thomas Higham, Eva Panagiotakopulu, Christos Doumas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Vulcanian eruption
Ecology Range (biology) media_common.quotation_subject Chitin Context (language use) Volcanic Eruptions General Medicine Insect law.invention Geography Bruchus rufipes law Bronze Age Animals Weevils Seasons Radiocarbon dating History Ancient Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Naturwissenschaften. 100:683-689 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1904 0028-1042 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00114-013-1068-8 |
| Popis: | Attributing a season and a date to the volcanic eruption of Santorini in the Aegean has become possible by using preserved remains of the bean weevil, Bruchus rufipes, pests of pulses, from the storage jars of the West House, in the Bronze Age settlement at Akrotiri. We have applied an improved pre-treatment methodology for dating the charred insects, and this provides a date of 1744-1538 BC. This date is within the range of others obtained from pulses from the same context and confirms the utility of chitin as a dating material. Based on the nature of the insect material and the life cycle of the species involved, we argue for a summer eruption, which took place after harvest, shortly after this material was transported into the West House storeroom. |
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