| ancient pests: the season of the santorini minoan volcanic eruption and a date from insect chitin. | attributing a season and a date to the volcanic eruption of santorini in the aegean has become possible by using preserved remains of the bean weevil, bruchus rufipes, pests of pulses, from the storage jars of the west house, in the bronze age settlement at akrotiri. we have applied an improved pre-treatment methodology for dating the charred insects, and this provides a date of 1744-1538 bc. this date is within the range of others obtained from pulses from the same context and confirms the util ... | 2013 | 23793358 |