Human and dog remains at Çeşme-Bağlararası are the latest evidence of the Thera eruption and the ensuing tsunami that roared through the Mediterranean.
But besides the volcanic material at the site, the team also found evidence that the ocean had paid a visit inland. Besides the human and canine remains at the site, the researchers found shells and urchins. They found a structure with a wall that had collapsed inward; it appeared that a dark, silty sediment had washed into the wall, causing it to implode.
The materials appeared to enter the site from one direction, leading the team to conclude it wasn’t the result of an earthquake. The research team is unsure whether the human—a healthy young man, perhaps a teenager—died from drowning, blunt force trauma, or even suffocated underneath the debris from the tsunami. But they are actively investigating that question.The site of Çeşme-Bağlararası, which was hit by a tsunami around the time of the Thera eruption.
But the skeletons’ ages will be helpful besides determining whether they were actually victims of the Thera event. Marine materials can be hard to date accurately with radiocarbon dating, so some researchers use different methods to date tsunamis. One team used optically stimulated luminescence technologyMore interesting data is sure to come out of Çeşme-Bağlararası and the individuals—both human and canine—that died there.
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