Volcanic eruption eye-witnessed and recorded by prehistoric humans

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Ulusoy, Inan¹  Sarikaya, M. Akif²  Schmitt, Axel K.³  Sen, Erdal¹  Danisik, Martin⁴  Gumus, Erdal^5,6 

[1] Hacettepe Univ, Dept Geol Engn, TR-06800 Ankara, Turkey

[2] Istanbul Tech Univ, Eurasia Inst Earth Sci, TR-34469 Istanbul, Turkey

[3] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Geowissensch, Neuenheimer Feld 234-236, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

[4] Curtin Univ, TIGeR, John de Laeter Ctr, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia

[5] Manisa Celal Bayar Univ, Geopk Res Ctr, TR-45900 Demirci, Manisa, Turkey

[6] Manisa Celal Bayar Univ, Demirci Vocat Sch, Dept GIS, TR-45900 Demirci, Manisa, Turkey

关键词: Western Turkey;    Anatolia;    UNESCO global geopark;    Salihli;    Petrographs;    Human footprints;    Rock painting;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.03.030

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Human footprints in hydrovolcanic ash near cakallar volcano (Kula, Western Turkey) were discovered in 1968. A nearby pictograph interpreted as depicting cakallar volcano would define it as the oldest site where humans demonstrably eye-witnessed a volcanic eruption and possibly artistically recorded it. Despite cakallar's volcanological and cultural importance, its eruption age has remained controversial. Here, two independent dating methods, cosmogenic Cl-36 and combined U-Pb and (U-Th)/He zircon (ZDD) geochronology, yielded the first internally consistent eruption ages controlled by detailed volcanostratigraphic mapping. Concordant Cl-36 ages of 4.7 +/- 0.6 ka (errors 1 sigma) were obtained for a cone-breaching lava flow. ZDD ages for crustal xenoliths from scoria deposits directly overlying the footprints yielded an age of 4.7 +/- 0.7 ka. This firmly places the cakallar eruption and prehistoric human footprints, and plausibly the rock art, into the Bronze Age, reinforcing the notion that prehistoric artwork recorded natural events. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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