Re: Regarding Sea Peoples
From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 709
Date: 1999-12-29
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Mark writes about my mail:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">>I don't think she is denying Thera is
a volcano or that there was an >immense eruption (her post reads like this,
however).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Look again, Mark. The thing I'm denying is
the 'explosion' of Thera (this was the basis of the well-known theories of
Tsunamis etc.) There certainly was an eruption that buried the 'Theran Pompeii
Akrotiri. But not the island as a whole exploded (as in: before a round island -
after just a small sickle left...) and so there was no respective tidal wave -
and no matching earthquakes because there are no huge earthquakes of the
necessary amplitude to go with this kind of eruption, as Zangger plausibly
explains (he also says the geology of Crete as a whole doesn't allow for a
'general' kind of earthquake - even if independent of any volcano- , destroying
the whole culture). And there was no climatic catastrophe, either (for this,
see: Rackham, Moody: The making of the Cretan landscape, Manchester 1996, one of
the best books I've seen over the last five years! Sorry, at the moment no other
references, Gerry).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Best wishes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Sabine</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>