New accelerator mass spectrometry 14C dates from the Mycenaean site of Iklaina

Problems of Dating Spread on Radiocarbon Calibration Curve Plateaus: The 1620–1540 BC Example and the Dating of the Therasia Olive Shrub Samples and Thera Volcanic Eruption

“…A number of sites offer radiocarbon dating evidence for a TAQ for the Thera eruption. This evidence either comprises (i) dating of the earliest attested contexts where there are Thera eruption products (pumice) present (likely from craft use): Tell el-'Ajjul in the southern Levant (Fischer 2009) and Tell el-Dab'a in the Nile Delta (Kutschera et al 2012), or (ii) a date that offers a TAQ for a Thera-associated tsunami (at Malia in Crete) (Lespez et al 2021), or (iii) the dating of archaeological contexts representing material culture phases that are known stratigraphically to be subsequent to the Thera eruption which is placed in the late Late Cycladic (LC) I or late Late Minoan (LM) IA or late Late Helladic (LH) I cultural periods (Warren and Hankey 1989;Driessen and Macdonald 1997;Manning 1999Manning , 2022Warburton 2009): thus subsequent LHIIA or LHII contexts at Iklaina (Cosmopoulos et al 2019), Kakovatos (Eder and Hadzi-Spiliopoulou 2021) (mainland Greece) and Kolonna on Aegina (Wild et al 2010) or subsequent LMIB contexts at Chania and Myrtos-Pyrgos on Crete (see Manning 2022Manning , 2009-the latter before the LMIB Final dates from Mochlos on Crete).…”