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Poseidon's horses: plate tectonics and earthquake storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and eastern Mediterranean
Amos Nur, Eric H. Cline, 2000. Journal of Archaeological Science 27(1), 43–63.
Overlays 20th-century zones of strong shaking on the map of sites destroyed at the end of the Late Bronze Age, finds nearly all destroyed sites in high-shaking areas, and suggests an "earthquake storm" in 1225–1175 BC, while stating that the evidence is not conclusive.
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Nur, A., & Cline, E. H. (2000). Poseidon's horses: plate tectonics and earthquake storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. Journal of Archaeological Science 27(1), 43–63. https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.1999.0431
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Nur, Amos and Eric H. Cline. “Poseidon's horses: plate tectonics and earthquake storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.” Journal of Archaeological Science 27(1), 43–63 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.1999.0431.