Dendroarchaeology of the mid-first millennium AD in Constantinople

Pearson, Charlotte; Griggs, Carol B.; Kuniholm, Peter Ian; Brewer, Peter W.; Ważny, Tomasz; Canady, Le Ann

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.05.024

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“…Bannister laid out the necessary conditions for the successful application of the methods of archaeological dendrochronology in this region. Several other studies followed the lead of Bannister in the region, such as Kuniholm and Striker (1987), Kuniholm (1990Kuniholm ( , 1994Kuniholm ( , 2000, and Pearson et al (2012).…”

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Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean

2014

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Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) region has made important contributions to the understanding of climate variability on timescales of decades to centuries. These contributions, beginning in the mid-20th century, have value for resource management, archaeology, and climatology. A gradually expanding treering network developed by the first author over the past 15 years has been the framework for some of the most important recent advances in EM dendroclimatology. The network, now consisting of 79 sites, has been widely applied in large-scale climatic reconstruction and in helping to identify drivers of climatic variation on regional to global spatial scales. This article reviews EM dendroclimatology and highlights contributions on the national and international scale.

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Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean

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“…The development of the Tellervo software has been carried out in parallel with the dendrochronological research arising from the extensive archaeological excavations at Yenikapı in Istanbul (Pearson et al 2012). The needs of the dendroarchaeologists working at Yenikapı have therefore been instrumental in guiding the development of Tellervo.…”

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“…However, for users who would like to perform spatial analysis of their data, this can be done by connecting to the PostGIS-enabled Tellervo database from standard GIS software. One example of how this was used during the Yenikapı project is included in the publication by Pearson et al (2012). They used the spatial data within Tellervo to explore phases of use and repair, in this case by plotting the location of samples within a specific dock.…”

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Data Management in Dendroarchaeology Using Tellervo

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2014

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The Tellervo dendrochronological software builds upon the Tree-Ring Data Standard (TRiDaS) to provide a tool for recording and managing all manner of dendrochronological data. However, Tellervo is especially useful for dendroarchaeological research. The traditional file formats used in dendrochronology-and by association the applications that use them-have very limited and nonstandard methods for recording rich information about dendro samples and their context. Such information is especially important in dendroarchaeological research to ensure accurate conclusions are made. Tellervo is described here in the context of research carried out as part of the excavations of the Theodosian Harbor at Yenikapı, Istanbul.

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“…The results of this work include a continuous tree-ring network for the East Mediterranean (hereafter EM) region comprised of oak sampled from forests and dendrochronologically dated historical and archaeological material that extends reliably back to AD 1089 from the present (Kuniholm and Striker 1987;Kuniholm 2000;Griggs et al 2007Griggs et al , 2009Pearson et al 2012). Recent dendrochronological research on oaks from the Yenikapı excavations in Istanbul, Turkey, may extend this chronology back to at least the 4th century BC (Pearson et al 2012). Additional floating tree-ring chronologies built from oak and other species span much of the period between today and 7000 BC and may extend tree-ring chronologies in the EM even further back in time (Kuniholm and Striker 1987;Kuniholm 1996).…”

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Bridging the Gaps in Tree-Ring Records: Creating a High-Resolution Dendrochronological Network for Southeastern Europe

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Dendrochronological research in North-Central Europe and the East Mediterranean has produced networks of long regional oak (Quercus sp.) reference chronologies that have been instrumental in dating, provenancing, and paleoclimate research applications. However, until now these two important tree-ring networks have not been successfully linked. Oak forests and historical/archaeological sites in southeastern Europe provide the key for linking the North-Central European and East Mediterranean tree-ring networks, but previous dendrochronological research in this region has been largely absent. This article presents the initial results of a project, in which we have built oak tree-ring chronologies from forest sites and historical/archaeological sites along a north-south transect between Poland and northwestern Turkey, with the aim of linking the North-Central European and East Mediterranean tree-ring networks and creating a new pan-European oak data set for dendrochronological dating and paleoclimatic reconstruction. Correlation among tree-ring chronologies and the spatial distribution of their teleconnections are evaluated. The southeastern European chronologies provide a solid bridge between both major European dendrochronological networks. The results indicate that a dense network of chronologies is the key for bridging spatial and temporal gaps in tree-ring records. Dendrochronological sampling should be intensively continued in southeastern Europe because resources for building long oak chronologies in the region are rapidly disappearing.

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Dendroarchaeology of the mid-first millennium AD in Constantinople

Cited by 24 publications

References 40 publications

Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean

Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean

Data Management in Dendroarchaeology Using Tellervo

Bridging the Gaps in Tree-Ring Records: Creating a High-Resolution Dendrochronological Network for Southeastern Europe

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