ocr: occupied. The third possibility is perhaps the likeliest: earthquake and other effects generated by the cataclysmic eruption of the volcano on the nearby island of Thera (Santorin). Itis known that the volcano erupted early in the late Bronze Age, but opinion has been divided between a date of about 1500 B.C. and one of about 1450. Recent work in Greenland on ice cores containing acidity that can be dated by its depth in the ice supports the later date, as does paleomagnetic information from Thera and Crete. The scale of destruction on Crete is compatible with the effects of a massive volcanic ...
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