Contents
1. Time heals all wounds? 1
Jan Driessen
2. Minoan Eruption chronology 5
A five decades-long debate
Tiziano Fantuzzi
3. Pottery Dating by Correspondence Analysis 31
Time Series Analysis
Bernhard Weninger
Raiko Krauß
4. The Timespan of Hyksos Rule (15th Dynasty) 57
Manfred Bietak
5. What 'Ezbet Helmi tells us about the East Mediterranean and chronology 83
Irmgard Hein
6. Some Late Helladic IIA pottery in the early Thutmosid Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis (Luxor,
Egypt) 117
Louis Dautais
Zulema Barahona-Mendieta
7. The Aegean World and Cyprus 141
Reconsidering the Evidence for Intersection between the Aegean World and Cyprus around the
Time of the Bronze Age Eruption of Thera
Kathryn O. Eriksson
8. Closing in on the Dating of the Thera/Santorini Eruption as of 2023 CE 153
Likely a later/late Second Intermediate Period Event
Sturt W. Manning
9. The Dating Game 181
The History and Present State of the Controversy Concerning the Date of the Theran Eruption
Malcolm H. Wiener
10. What's Next? 191
Chronological improvements through proxy synchronization and annual 14C
Charlotte L. Pearson
11. Bottoms Up 207
A View of the Theran Volcanic Eruption from the Neopalatial Cups from Chryssi
Chrysa Sofianou
Thomas Brogan
Melissa Eaby
Vili Apostolakou
Philip Betancourt
12. Is a new system of Minoan relative chronology feasible? 221
Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
13. Tackling questions of relative chronologies through Correspondence Analysis 233
The Neopalatial pottery sequence at Sissi (Crete) as a case study
Iro Mathioudaki
Tiziano Fantuzzi
14. Mining the Labyrinth 255
Prospects and Pitfalls of Synthetic Research on the Knossian Ceramic Sequence
Charles Sturge
Tiziano Fantuzzi
15. Experimental Report on Statistical Analysis of Bronze Age Pottery from Kolonna on Aegina 277
Basics, Challenges and Some Conclusions
Walter Gauß
16. It’s Absolutely Relative 295
The Late Helladic I Stratigraphic and Ceramic Sequences from Mitrou and their 14C Anchor
Points
Salvatore Vitale
Christopher M. Hale
Aleydis Van de Moortel
Nicholas P. Herrmann
17. Chronological Revision in the Aegean 321
Perceptions of Time along Stratigraphic and Ceramic Sequences
Stefanos Gimatzidis
18. Conclusion 351
Summary and Final Remarks
Tiziano Fantuzzi