Kings, tree rings and the Old World

New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620sBCage for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption

“…Ultimately, the use of both of these parameters in an ice core that has a well-developed depth-age scale can either provide the most reliable age for past eruptions or provide critical data that eliminate ages proposed for an eruption. Interestingly, Renfrew (1996) and Kuniholm et al (1996) specifically pointed out that the presence of tephra in a Greenland core is necessary to confirm (or refute-our notation) the 1620s  age of the Santorini eruption. This paper presents the results of a tephrochronological study of a section of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice core (Summit, Greenland) that has a direct bearing on the proposed 1620s  age of the Santorini eruption.…”

Prehistoric "settlement crisis," environmental changes in the British Isles, and volcanic eruptions in Iceland: An exploration of plausible linkages

“…The impacts of a major environmental change, for example, in the prevailing climate or the arrival of noxious ash, are likely to have varied notably through these regions. None of these geological, archeological, and dating problems is unusual in European prehistory, as the continuing debate concerning the association of the Minoan eruption of Thera, anomalous growth rings in Turkish trees and the biblical fall of Jericho, illustrates (Bruins and Plicht, 1996;Kuniholm et al, 1996;Manning, 1998;Renfrew, 1996;Zielinski and Germani, 1998).…”

Tree Rings and the Chronology of Ancient Egypt

“…Unfortunately, within a matter of weeks the technician had accepted a position elsewhere (Nash 1999:203) to pursue work, like so many others, in the Southwest. Since him, numerous other scholars have called for the construction of a tree-ring chronology for Egypt or the proxy records it provides, including James H. Breasted (1933), Emil Haury (1935), Ambrose Lansing (1938), Ludlow Bull (1942), Bryant Bannister (1970Bannister ( , 1985, Jeffrey S. Dean (1978), Colin Renfrew (1996), Peter Ian Kuniholm (1992Kuniholm ( , 2002, Ian Shaw (2000a), Otto Cichocki (2000Cichocki ( , 2006, Nadine Moeller (2005), Kenneth A. Since him, numerous other scholars have called for the construction of a tree-ring chronology for Egypt or the proxy records it provides, including James H. Breasted (1933), Emil Haury (1935), Ambrose Lansing (1938), Ludlow Bull (1942), Bryant Bannister (1970Bannister ( , 1985, Jeffrey S. Dean (1978), Colin Renfrew (1996), Peter Ian Kuniholm (1992Kuniholm ( , 2002, Ian Shaw (2000a), Otto Cichocki (2000Cichocki ( , 2006, Nadine Moeller (2005), Kenneth A.…”

“…It seems that Douglass' direct efforts tapered out soon after, ending with the onset of World War II (Creasman et al 2012). Since him, numerous other scholars have called for the construction of a tree-ring chronology for Egypt or the proxy records it provides, including James H. Breasted (1933), Emil Haury (1935), Ambrose Lansing (1938), Ludlow Bull (1942), Bryant Bannister (1970Bannister ( , 1985, Jeffrey S. Dean (1978), Colin Renfrew (1996), Peter Ian Kuniholm (1992Kuniholm ( , 2002, Ian Shaw (2000a), Otto Cichocki (2000Cichocki ( , 2006, Nadine Moeller (2005), Kenneth A. Kitchen (2006), Malcolm H. Wiener (2006), and others.…”