A tsunami only partially explains the disappearance of the Minoans.
A tsunami only partially explains the disappearance of the Minoans.
Sorry, still nothing. :’P
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“it wasn’t until recently that evidence of a massive tsunami, brought on by the eruption, was linked to the mystery...”
Actually, it still hasn’t. Also, the difference in time between the supposed (IMO fictional) mid-2nd-millennia supereruption and the collapse of Minoan Palatial civ is between 80 and 180 years (depending on which alleged date one believes). Marinatos originated the tsunami model prior to WWII, and tried to rationalize and minimize the discrepancy by claiming that the pottery styles were concurrent — a pretty transparently false idea that has not been accepted.
The Minoan cities were sacked and reoccupied by Mycenaean Greeks (or otherwise sacked and abandoned thereafter). The Mycenaeans also took over the formerly Minoan trade routes. There’s your eruption.
“Even when, during the respective Thera Conferences, individual scientists had pointed out that the magnitude and significance of the Thera eruption must be estimated as less than previously thought, the conferences acted to strengthen the original hypothesis. The individual experts believed that the arguments advanced by their colleagues were sound, and that the facts of a natural catastrophe were not in doubt... All three factors reflect a fantasy world rather than cool detachment, which is why it so difficult to refute the theory with rational arguments.” — Eberhard Zangger, “The Future of the Past”, pp 49-50.
They all packed up & moved to Asia Minoa.
True, but a Thera tsunami could explain the legend of Atlantis since a giant tsunami would have indunated and destroyed not just one, but most coastal ‘cities’.
“Atlantis” might have been Plato’s way of allegorically describing an event that many separate cultures endured.
The wave that destroyed Atlantis [Destroyed by a giant tsunami?]
BBC On-Line | Friday, 20 April 2007 | Harvey Lilley
Posted on 04/22/2007 5:53:44 AM PDT by yankeedame
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