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"Little is known about Bronze Age Theran society and what is known is open to debate." Critically analyse this statement by referring to the available evidence.
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"Little is known about Bronze Age Theran society and what is known is open to debate." Critically analyse this statement by referring to the available evidence. Little is known, but much is assumed about Bronze Age Theran society. Much is under debate as there isn't enough evidence to prove what happened and opinions are all there is to go on. The date of the volcanic eruption on Thera is under debate between the archaeologically found date and scientifically found date. The archaeologists have used relative dating and typology of pottery to find the date lies between 1450BC and 1500BC. The scientists have used Carbon-14, dendrochronology, pollen analysis and deep-sea cores to find the date lies between 1627BC and 1629BC. Meaning the eruption is most likely to have been in 1628BC, scientifically. Therefore the end of Thera is much debated and coincides with the theorists' speculation. For S. Marinatos this would be between...
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