Abstract
Charred Organic Material, Heated by Anthropogenic Fires and Hot Volcanic Products from the Minoan Eruption, Excavated from the Bronze Age Site of Akrotiri on the Cycladic Island of Thera (Greece)
Highlights
The Bronze Age settlement of Akrotiri is situated on the southern coast of Thera, a volcanic island, belonging to the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea (Greece)
The results show that the olive stone samples 715 and 923 were heated at temperatures of 400 oC, which is comparable to the samples from the Early Cycladic (EC) and Middle Cycladic (MC) periods
The settlement of Akrotiri developed from the Late Neolithic through the Early and Middle Cycladic period into a flourishing city up to the beginning of the Late Cycladic period, covering a period of over 1500 years
Summary
The Bronze Age settlement of Akrotiri is situated on the southern coast of Thera, a volcanic island, belonging to the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea (Greece). From an archaeological point of view the Bronze Age is in this region divided into three major periods i.e. Early Cycladic (EC) (3000–2100 BC), Middle Cycladic (MC) (2100–1600 BC) and Late Cycladic (LC) (1600–1100 BC). The huge Plinian (Minoan) eruption buried and at the same time preserved the settlement by layers of hot tephra ejected from the volcano. The date of the eruption has been much debated in the literature and has led to a dispute between the approaches of conventional archaeology and scientific archaeology. Systematic archaeological excavations at Akrotiri started in 1967 by Marinatos and are continued to this day by Christos Doumas. The data shows that already since, at least, the Late
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