A Test of Time and a Test of Time Revisited.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Revisit Essay: The Thera/Santorini Debate 13+ years on -- Introduction -- Approaches and viewpoints: relativity and objectivity in the Thera/ Santorini debate -- A Test of Time Revisited: The State of the Debate and Key Evidence as of AD 2012 to earlier 2013 -- Note concerning WWW document on developments AD 1999 to AD 2006 -- Note concerning discussion to AD 2004, and then to AD 2012 -- State of the Debate (AD 2012 to earlier 2013) -- What we can put aside at present with regard to the Thera date debate -- Ice-cores -- Speleothems and Postscript -- Tree-ring growth anomalies -- Aegean tree-ring growth anomaly -- Thera pumice -- Tell el-Dab'a -- Archaeomagnetism -- The archaeological connections between the Aegean, east Mediterranean and Egypt -- Khyan Lid -- Egyptian stone vessels -- Vessel with the name of Ahmose from Palaepaphos Teratsoudhia, Cyprus -- White Slip -- Rhyta -- The radiocarbon (14C) evidence -- The 14C evidence for the date of the end of the Akrotiri VDL, and for the Aegean phases before, contemporary with, and after the Thera eruption -- Akrotiri VDL 14C dates in isolation -- Aegean Sequence analysis -- Thera olive branch -- Robustness? -- Conclusions -- Claims of problems as undermining radiocarbon dating in the Aegean and especially as regards Thera put forward by Wiener (2012) -- Regional 14C off sets -- Calcareous growth context for plant samples -- Analysis and calibration -- Radiocarbon conclusions -- Approximate Chronology to use AD 2013 versus Manning (1999: 340 and Fig. 62)? -- Response to, and critique of, Bietak (2004) -- Corrections/mistakes in Manning (1999) -- Corrections/Mistakes - which were errors/mistakes in 1999 - and discussion -- Supposed 12th century BC dendrochronological anomaly -- Uluburun and dendrochronology.

The dating of the Anatolian juniper dendrochronology -- Is the Gordion/Anatolian dendrochronology sound? -- Has Anatolian dendrochronology always been appropriately undertaken and reported? -- Other Corrigenda and Addenda to A Test of Time -- Revisit Essay Appendix 1: Details on Egyptian New Kingdom chronology results following Aston (2012) and re-running the Bronk Ramsey et al. (2010) radiocarbon model -- Revisit Essay Appendix 2: Radiocarbon date listing regarding Figures RE1-4 and Manning et al. (2006a) -- Revisit Essay Appendix 3: Testing 14C Sequence analysis in the period 1700-1500 BC against known age data -- References -- Postscript -- Comparisons and Diff erences Between the IntCal09 and IntCal13 Calibration Datasets with regard to the Thera VDL Date Range -- IntCal13 and the Thera Olive Branch -- IntCal13 and the 14C Chronology of New Kingdom Egypt -- IntCal13, Tree-rings, and Mesopotamian Chronology -- IntCal13 and the date of the Uluburun Ship -- IntCal13 and dating Late Minoan IB-II -- Final words on the anti-radiocarbon case: comments on Wiener and Earle (2014) -- Additional References in the Postscript not in the Revisit Essay -- Index.

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