The date of the Minoan Santorini eruption: Quantifying the "offset"

Radiocarbon

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 435-448

  Höflmayer, Felix ^a  

^a GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; DATA SET; RADIOCARBON DATING;

NILE VALLEY;

EID: 84873849397     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200047196     Document Type: Article

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