Response to ‘The fall of Phaethon: a Greco-Roman geomyth preserves the memory of a meteorite impact in Bavaria (south-east Germany)’ by Rappenglück et al. (Antiquity 84)

The authors comment on the date of the formation of the Tüttensee, holding that it was not created by a meteorite in the first millennium BC as claimed in the Antiquity article, but formed at the end of the Ice Age and can have nothing to do with Phaethon and his chariot. In reply, Rappenglück et al...

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Published in:Antiquity 2011-03, Vol.85 (327), p.274-277
Main Authors: Doppler, Gerhard, Geiss, Erwin, Kroemer, Ernst, Traidl, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Craters
Glacial epoch
Ice ages
Impact structures
Lakes
Natural history
Research article
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Summary:The authors comment on the date of the formation of the Tüttensee, holding that it was not created by a meteorite in the first millennium BC as claimed in the Antiquity article, but formed at the end of the Ice Age and can have nothing to do with Phaethon and his chariot. In reply, Rappenglück et al. offer a brief defence of their thesis.
ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.1017/S0003598X00067600