title: A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid Second Millennium BC
author: Sturt Manning
description: As with the first book, this new edition is bound to generate significant debate, which in time may lead to consensus on dating this decisive eruption. Until then, Manning has once again provided a rich source of material that will impact the application of both absolute and relative chronologies in the Mediterranean region. (Dora Constantinidis <i>Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Vol. 4 No. 4, 2016</i>)
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  **Copyright** ****
  
  
  ## **Parallel Developments**
  
  
  Copyright © 2017 by Bernhard R. Teicher
  
  
  BIOCOMM PRESS
  
  
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  _**CONTENTS**_
  
  
  
  
  
  **A** **Introduction** 1
  
  
  **Creation or Evolution** A Personal View 2
  
  
  
  
  
  **B** **Geological Timeline from 5 000 BP to the Big Bang** 3
  
  
  1999 Geological Timescale by the Geological Society of America 5
  
  
  Geological Times 6
  
  
  Source References 7
  
  
  Ecological/Cultural Timelines for Western Europe 9
  
  
  Queries, Addenda, Notes 10
  
  
  Mediterranean Sea Levels, The Big 5 Extinctions 10
  
  
  Basic Terms of Biological Hierarchy,