Fig. 1.

Radiocarbon ages for Taupo eruption are older near the vent. Relationships between radiocarbon ages, distance of sample from vent and relative to tree death for the Taupo First Millennium eruption: median calibrated ¹⁴C ages for samples against distance from vent system of the Taupo eruption: filled circles, ages measured at the Waikato radiocarbon laboratory, including ages on leaves and seeds from the buried forests at Pureora and Benneydale not included in HDK18; solid dark blue line, fitted LOESS relationship, 0.85 smoothing factor. Other symbols as in legend. Generalised linear model fits for median calibrated dates for revised ¹⁴C age data set shown by grey lines, equations and statistics, for samples < 60 km and >60 km from the vent. Broken black line, current wiggle-match eruption date