claim · claim_hekla_too_late_initial_driver
The current Hekla 3 range of 1100 ±50 BCE is too late to serve as the initiating cause of most palatial destructions conventionally placed around or before 1200 BCE.
The current Hekla 3 range of 1100 ±50 BCE is too late to serve as the initiating cause of most palatial destructions conventionally placed around or before 1200 BCE.
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Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Supporting sources
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Hekla: Eruptive History, H3 Tephra Entry — Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism ProgramSupports the claim: The current Hekla 3 range of 1100 ±50 BCE is too late to serve as the initiating cause of most palatial destructions conventionally placed around or before 1200 BCE.
- supports · supports
Getting Closer to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC — Guy D. Middleton (2024)Supports the claim: The current Hekla 3 range of 1100 ±50 BCE is too late to serve as the initiating cause of most palatial destructions conventionally placed around or before 1200 BCE.
- supports · supports
Severe Multi-Year Drought Coincident with Hittite Collapse around 1198–1196 BC — Sturt W. Manning, Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, Jed P. Sparks (2023)Supports the claim: The current Hekla 3 range of 1100 ±50 BCE is too late to serve as the initiating cause of most palatial destructions conventionally placed around or before 1200 BCE.
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