Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8911427 | Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | 2018 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Metallurgic furnaces, discovered in the archaeological site of Croce di Papa, Nola, at 15Â km NE from the Vesuvius summit, were dated here by using archaeomagnetic technique. They are positioned between the deposits of the Vesuvius eruption of Pomici di Avellino and of the Phlegraean eruption of Agnano-Monte Spina. A revision of available age data and associated uncertainties for these two eruptions was carried out in order to provide constraints on the Croce di Papa furnaces age determination. The adopted archaeomagnetic technique provides an accurate age of 3136-3027Â BCE corresponding to 5085 to 4976 a BP that represents the upper age limit of the Agnano-Monte Spina eruption. This study provides evidences for the existence of human settlements in the Campanian Plain in the first century of the forth millennium BC and allow to assess the limited impact of the Agnano-Monte Spina eruption on climate and human settlement.
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Authors
Claudia Principe, Avto Gogichaishvili, Simone Arrighi, Marina Devidze, Sonia La Felice, Annarita Paolillo, Daniele Giordano, Juan Morales,