Reply to Doppler et al . ‘Response to “The fall of Phaethon

A Greco-Roman geomyth preserves the memory of a meteorite impact in Bavaria (south-east Germany) ( Antiquity 84)”’

Bibliographic Data

ID9606215
AuthorsBarbara Rappenglück (corresponding author), Michael A Rappenglück, K Ernstson (0000-0001-9692-6868, University of Würzburg), Werner Mayer, Werner R Mayer, Andreas Neumair, Dirk Sudhaus (University of Freiburg), I Liritzis (0000-0003-3079-1336, University of the Aegean)
Year2011
Volume85
Issue327
Pages278-280
Publication date2011-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00067612
OpenAlexW2309558037
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited2

We acknowledge the observations of Doppler et al . on our paper and we are grateful to Antiquity's editor for this opportunity to reply to their objections. Firstly, it should be noted that we have not claimed that the Chiemsee once included the Tüttensee. We agree that the region in which both lakes lie was glacially formed. But while Lake Chiemsee is the result of the last Ice Age the Tüttensee basin originates from a much later Holocene meteorite impact. We do not use the myth of Phaeton to date this event that is known as the Chiemgau impact. On the contrary we estimate from archaeological evidence and OSL dating that the event occurred between 2200 and 800 BC, i.e. the Bronze Age (Rappenglück et al . 2010: 436).We go on to discuss parallels between the independent dating of the Chiemgau impact and the possible time frame of the myth (Rappenglück et al . 2010: 435–37)

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Holocene · Meteorite · Mythology · Optical dating · Parallels · Astro and Planetary Science · Classics · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Planetary Science and Exploration

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