Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-18T21:20:15.567Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Hit-or-myth? Linking a 1259 AD acid spike with an Okataina eruption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David J. Lowe  and
Thomas F. G. Higham
David J. Lowe
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences & Geochronology Research Unit, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand. [email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Notes
Information
Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 276 , June 1998 , pp. 427 - 432
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Anderson, A.J. 1991. The chronology of colonization in New Zealand, Antiquity 65: 767–95.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baillie, M.C.L., 1996. Extreme environmental events and the linking of the tree-ring and ice-core records, Radiocarbon 38: 703–11.Google Scholar
Baillie, M.C.L., 1998. Bronze Age myths expose archaeological shortcomings? a reply to Buckland et al. 1997, Antiquity 72: 425–7.Google Scholar
Buckland, P.C., Dugmore, A.J. & Edwards, K.J. 1997. Bronze Age myths? Volcanic activity and human responses in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic regions, Antiquity 71: 581–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Froggatt, P.C. & Lowe, D.J. 1990. A review of late Quaternary silicic and some other tephra formations from New Zealand: their stratigraphy, nomenclature, distribution, volume, and age, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 33: 89–109.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hammer, C.U., Clausen, H.B. & Dansgaard, W. 1980. Greenland ice sheet evidence of post-glaciol volcanism and its climatic impact, Nature 288: 230–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hicham, T.F.G. & Hogg, A.G. 1997. Evidence for late Polynesian colonisation of New Zealand: University of Waikato radiocarbon measurements, Radiocarbon 39: 149–92.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Langway, C.C. Jr Clausen, H.B. & Hammer, C.U. 1988. An inter-hemispheric volcanic time-marker in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, Annals of Glacioiogy 10:102–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lowe, D.J. & Hogg, A.G. 1992. Application of new technology liquid scintillation spectrometry to radiocarbon dating of tephra deposits, New Zealand, Quaternary International 13/14: 135–42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lowe, D.J., Mcfadgen, B.G. Hicham, T.F.G. Hogg, A.G. Froggatt, P.C. & Nairn, I.A. In Press A. Radiocarbon age of the Kaharoa Tephra, a key marker for late Holocene stratigraphy and archaeology in New Zealand, The Holocene 8.Google Scholar
Lowe, D.J., Newnham, R.M. Hicham, T.F.G. Wilmshurst, J.M. McGlone, M.S. & Hogg, A.G In press b. Dating earliest human impact and settlement in New Zealand, in Sutton, D.G. (ed.), Origins of the first New Zealanders, 2nd edition. Auckland: Auckland University Press.Google Scholar
Mcgormac, F.G., Hogg, A.G. Higham, T.F.G. Lynch-Stieglitz, J. Broecker, M Baillie, G.L. Palmer, J.G. Xiong, L. Brown, D. & Hoper, S.T. In press. Interhemispheric difference in l4G: an anthropogenic COz effect, Geophysical Research Letters.Google Scholar
Newnham, R.M., Lowe, D.J. Mcglone, M.S. Wilmshurst, J.M. & Higham, T.F.G. 1998. The Kaharoa Tephra as a critical datum for earliest human impact in northern New Zealand, Journal of Archaeological Science 25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Palais, J.M., Germani, M.S. & Zielinski, G.A. 1992. Inter-hemispheric transport of volcanic ash from a 1259 AD volcanic eruption to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, Geophysical Research Letters 19: 801–4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pullar, W.A., Kohn, B.P. & Cox, J.E. 1977. Air-fall Kaharoa Ash and Taupo Pumice, and sea-rafted Loisels Pumice, Taupo Pumice, and Leigh Pumice in northern and eastern parts of the North Island, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 20: 697–717.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ramsey, C.B. 1994. OxCal.v.2.14: radiocarbon calibration and statistical analysis program. Oxford: Research Laboratory for Archaeology.Google Scholar
Simkin, T. & Siebert, L. 1994. Volcanoes of the world. 2nd edition. Tucson (AZ): Geoscience Press.Google Scholar
Stokes, S., Lowe, D.J. & Froggatt, P.C. 1992. Discriminant function analysis and correlation of late Quaternary rhyolitic tephra deposits from Taupo and Okataina volcanoes, New Zealand, using glass shard major element composition, Quaternary International 13/14: 102–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stuiver, M. & Becker, B. 1993. High-precision decadal calibration of the radiocarbon time scale, AD 1950–6000 BC, Radiocarbon 35: 35–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stuiver, M. & Reimer, P.J. 1993. Extended “C data base and revised CALIB 3.0 I4C age calibration programme, Radiocarbon 35: 215–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vogel, J.C., Fuls, A., Visser, E, & Becker, B. 1993. Pretoria calibration curve for short-lived samples, 1930–3350 BC, Radiocarbon 35: 73–85.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zielinski, G.A. & Germane, M.S. 1998. New ice core evidence challenges the 1620s BC age for the Santorini (Minoan] eruption, Journal of Archaeological Science 25: 279–89.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zielinski, G.A., Mayewski, P.A. Meeker, L.D. Whitlow, S. Twickler, M.S. Morrison, M. Meese, D. Alley, R.B. & Gow, A.J. 1994. Record of volcanism since 7000 BC from the GISP2 Greenland ice core and implications for the volcanoclimate system, Science 264: 948–52.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed