@article {319239,
	title = {Volcanic eruption eye-witnessed and recorded by prehistoric humans},
	journal = {Quaternary Science Reviews},
	volume = {212},
	year = {2019},
	month = {2019/05/15/},
	pages = {187 - 198},
	abstract = {<p>Human footprints in hydrovolcanic ash near {\c C}akallar volcano (Kula, Western Turkey) were discovered in 1968. A nearby pictograph interpreted as depicting {\c C}akallar volcano would define it as the oldest site where humans demonstrably eye-witnessed a volca̶nic eruption and possibly artistically recorded it. Despite {\c C}akallar{\textquoteright}s volcanological and cultural importance, its eruption age has remained controversial. Here, two independent dating methods, cosmogenic 36Cl and combined U-Pb and (U-Th)/He zircon (ZDD) geochronology, yielded the first internally consistent eruption ages controlled by detailed volcanostratigraphic mapping. Concordant 36Cl ages of 4.7 {\textpm} 0.6 ka (errors 1σ) 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 {\textpm} 0.7 ka. This firmly places the {\c C}akallar eruption and prehistoric human footprints, and plausibly the rock art, into the Bronze Age, reinforcing the notion that prehistoric artwork recorded natural events.</p>
},
	keywords = {Anatolia, Human footprints, Petrographs, Rock painting, Salihli, UNESCO global geopark, Western Turkey},
	isbn = {0277-3791},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.03.030},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118308709},
	author = {Ulusoy, {\.I}nan and Sar{\i}kaya, M. Akif and Schmitt, Axel K. and {\c S}en, Erdal and Dani{\v s}{\'\i}k, Martin and G{\"u}m{\"u}{\c s}, Erdal}
}
