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We thank P. Reimer, M. Stuiver, C. Bronk Ramsey, M. Bell, D. Wagenbach, P. Valdes, and J. Chiment for discussions; M. J. Bruce and K. B. Harris for manuscript preparation; and two anonymous Science reviewers. We thank the Institute for Aegean Prehistory for funding the majority of this work; we also acknowledge the support of NSF, the Malcolm H. Wiener Foundation, and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung).