Discovery of a tsunami deposit from the Bronze Age Santorini eruption at Malia (Crete): impact, chronology, extension [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 A geomorphological survey immediately west of the Minoan town of Malia (Crete) shows that a tsunami resulting from the Bronze Age Santorini eruption reached the outskirts of the Palatial center.
Laurent Lespez +9 more
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Unsupervised deep learning supports reclassification of Bronze age cypriot writing system. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Ancient undeciphered scripts present problems of different nature, not just tied to linguistic identification. The undeciphered Cypro-Minoan script from second millennium BCE Cyprus, for instance, currently does not have a standardized, definitive ...
Michele Corazza +3 more
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The Minoan Thera eruption predates Pharaoh Ahmose: Radiocarbon dating of Egyptian 17th to early 18th Dynasty museum objects. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe huge volcanic eruption at Thera (Santorini), situated in the Aegean Sea, occurred within the Late Minoan IA archaeological period. However, its temporal association with Egyptian history has long been a controversial subject.
Hendrik J Bruins +1 more
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Finding Mycenaeans in Minoan Crete? Isotope and DNA analysis of human mobility in Bronze Age Crete. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 We undertook a large-scale study of Neolithic and Bronze Age human mobility on Crete using biomolecular methods (isotope analysis, DNA), with a particular focus on sites dating to the Late Bronze Age ('Late Minoan') period.
Michael Richards +9 more
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Towards reconstruction of the lost Late Bronze Age intra-caldera island of Santorini, Greece [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 During the Late Bronze Age, the island of Santorini had a semi-closed caldera harbour inherited from the 22 ka Cape Riva Plinian eruption, and a central island referred to as ‘Pre-Kameni’ after the present-day Kameni Islands.
Dávid Karátson +7 more
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Is Boiling Bitter Greens a Legacy of Ancient Crete? Contemporary Foraging in the Minoan Refugium of the Lasithi Plateau [PDF]
FoodsWild greens (WGs) play a significant role in Mediterranean diets (MDs), reflecting botanical and cultural diversities, mainly influenced by a complex conglomerate of local human ecologies.
Mousaab Alrhmoun +7 more
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Ex oriente nigri: “Captain of the Blacks” and the Fabrication of the Minoan Culture
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2022 The fabrication of the Minoan culture is the specifically modern phenomenon, closely linked to the imperial and colonial conquest and appropriation of Ancient Greece.
Uroš Matić
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Signs, marks, and Olivier Masson
Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, 2020 Olivier Masson’s early contributions to the history of Cypro-Minoan scholarship have been largely eclipsed by the later work of Emilia Masson, his wife, who was the commanding figure in Cypro-Minoan studies through the 1970s and 1980s. O.
Cassandra M. Donnelly
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The Obstetric Connection: Midwives and Weasels within and beyond Minoan Crete
Religions, 2021 The Minoan peak sanctuaries call for systematic comparative research as an island-bound phenomenon whose significance to the (pre)history of medicine far transcends the Cretan context: they yield clay anatomical offerings attesting to the earliest known ...
Simone Zimmermann Kuoni
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SANTORİNİ VOLKANI VE MİNOAN PÜSKÜRMESİNİN TÜRKİYE’DEKİ İZLERİ
Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi, 2003 Tephra layers provide an opportunity to determine the age of an eruption, the extent of ash dispersal, and its impact on natural and human ecosystems. One such tephra from the seventeenth-century BC eruption of Thera on the Aegean island of Santorini is ...
Hakan YİĞİTBAŞIOĞLU
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