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12 pages of results. 11. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... that Ahmose's Tempest Stela' describes severe effects over all Egypt, not just in the Theban region as the original translator assumed. They also point out that the radiocarbon evidence, while preferring a 17th century date, by no means rules out their date in the 16th century (due to a wiggle in the calibration curve). The Irish dendrochronological aberration at 1628BC has not been proven to relate to Thera. Bietak in his new book Avaris... (British Museum, 1996) is scathing about the implications of the high date for Thera, saying that it would mean inserting 130 years into Egyptian history and that Currently no Egyptologist would accept such a proposition' (p ...
12. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Chapter 7 (pp. 29-43) is Mediterranean Chronology in Crisis' by P James, N Kokkinos and I Thorpe. It ranges slightly more widely than the title of the volume and is divided into the following sections: an introduction, Cypro-Phoenician Horizon, Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, Central Mediterranean Chronology, Radiocarbon Dating of the Aegean, Dendrochronological Prospects and Conclusion. Some of the material reiterates that already published in Centuries, some new points are made, and there are some replies to critics. One item from the introductory section is the find of a Greek Late Proto-Geometric krater in a sealed archaeological context from Tel Hadar in Israel. The Israeli context is dated to the 11th ...
13. Recent Developments In Near Eastern Archaeology. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... interesting to note that at least one ice core is wrong. Furthermore, the 1645 BC date is putting Thera more than a century outside the possible range of orthodox archaeological-historical dates (Thera = later Late Minoan IA = early Egyptian 18th Dynasty = c. 1520 BC?). A further twist is given by the latest revision of Anatolian dendrochronology. This dendrochronology does not reach all the way to the present, so the Bronze-Iron Age dendrochronology has to be located by taking carbon dates and wiggle matching' them to the international radiocarbon calibration curve. Originally this gave a +/ -37 year positioning; later it was fixed at precisely 26 years after the mid-position by identifying a ...
14. Forum: Do the Early Middle Ages Survive Only as a Sacred Cow? C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... can see from these examples how many riddles are still present in conventional history and how many of them can be effortlessly solved. If Palmer thinks that the orthodox chronological paradigm, that particular sacred cow is still alive and well' [66], then this is only due to the fact that this paradigm has not been questioned sufficiently. Dendrochronology Dendrochronology per se is not to be dismissed. What should be generally remembered is that dendrochronology is not a method for absolute dating but only a method of calibrating conventional chronology (e .g . by using construction dates from the Middle Ages as well as from Roman times; this is done with the help of the C14 method which ...
15. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Thera in this issue has potentially great significance for everyone working on ancient history (Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology, p. 27). The eruption of Thera is a key marker in the history of civilisations around the Mediterranean and it gives the opportunity to link historical records and archaeological finds with the dates derived from tree ring studies (dendrochronology) and ice cores. The consensus' date for the eruption in recent years has been 1628BC - a date which suits the conventional chronology (although it is actually a little early for it) - but is much too early for the various revised chronologies which have been developed based on historical evidence. As Bob reports, the 1628BC ...
16. Review: A Bronze Age Disaster. Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic encounters with comets, by M.G.L. Baillie [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of this journal will be pleased to see that Baillie fully appreciates the value of human traditions as evidence for catastrophism. It is also highly commendable that he discusses Velikovsky fairly and dispassionately, stating squarely when he disagrees with him but crediting him for initiating much current research. The first two chapters provide a highly readable summary of the development of dendrochronology and form a good introduction to the subject. However as soon as Baillie strays from his own speciality, things go awry. - As an attempt at interdisciplinary scholarship Exodus to Arthur is lamentable. The candour of the writing, otherwise praiseworthy, betrays confusion and a lack of control over basic source material. Sadly, aside from one ...
17. An Investigation into the Reality of the Early Medieval Dark Age [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of any arguments about the year, suggesting that the calendar has indeed been maintained on a continuous basis. There is no evidence whatsoever that 300 additional years were inserted at some point - yet today Jewish chronology agrees with the traditional Christian one that the destruction of the second Temple in Jerusalem occurred over 1900, not 1600, years ago. Dendrochronology Niemitz devoted about a quarter of his article to questioning the reliability of dendrochronology, which has claimed to confirm the conventional dates for some early medieval and Roman sites. For example, studies on oak timbers have indicated that the first Roman fort at Carlisle was built over a period of a few years centred on the traditional date of 79 ...
18. Sean Mewhinney's Critique Based On Bombastic Subterfuge, Evasion And Denial [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... years on either side, they identified it as the signature of the Thera eruption. This was in 1980." 20 Mewhinney next turns to how corroboration then came from tree ring dating related to climate and new evidence from the Greenland ice sheet which supposedly confirmed the validity of the uniformitarian analysis of Thera. He goes on to cite the dendrochronological work of Valmore La Marche and Katherine Hirschboeck that Thera caused a severe cold spell which is found in the American Southwest's bristlecone pines dated to about 1627 B .C . 21 He also explains how a similar date was also found in the Greenland ice which would corroborate Thera's eruption date of 1645 B.C . with an estimated standard ...
19. Recent Developments In Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the well known Byzantine one (Jerusalem Post 24th June 2004). Much of what follows relates to chronological problems caused by scientific' dating techniques. I am a scientist with an MSc (also an MA in archaeology) but science needs to be done carefully and published and checked. We still await any sort of final publication of a dendrochronology stretching back into the BC period, except for Hollstein's in 1980 which was subsequently found to have a 70 year error. Since the calibration of all carbon dates is based on such dendrochronologies, the lack of publication should be a glaring omission, but there seems no way to get the world of historians and archaeologists to realise the omission ...
20. Rohl's Chronology - Implications for Mediterranean? [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the average calibrated C14 date for the Thera eruption is 1670 BC. It is the frost signature in the European oaks which supplies the date of 1628 BC.) If the problems which I highlight below remain problems, and are not solved by the scientific community, then there should be sufficient doubt cast on the 1628 date (and the dendrochronology curve) to permit other proposed dates for the eruption - dates based on historical arguments. So what are those problems? Long-lived samples versus short-lived samples. Wood samples are known to give artificially high C14 dates because a tree can live for several centuries before its use in a building. The impression given would be that the building and ...
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