Dendrochronological Investigations in the Aegean and Neighboring Regions, 1983–1986

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

“…Strong teleconnections have been observed among oak chronologies from forest sites across North-Central Europe (Baillie 1983;Pilcher et al 1984;Ważny and Eckstein 1991;Haneca et al 2005Haneca et al , 2009Kolar et al 2012); moreover, there are generally strong heteroconnections among different oak species (Ufnalski 2006;Cedro 2007). Similarly strong teleconnections and heteroconnections have been observed in oak chronologies built from sites in the Aegean and East Mediterranean (Kuniholm and Striker 1987;Hughes et al 2001;Griggs et al 2007Griggs et al , 2009.…”

“…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).…”

“…S40 WAŻNY, LORENTZEN, KÖSE, AKKEMIK, BOLTRYK, GÜNER, KYNCL, KYNCL, NECHITA, SAGAYDAK, and VASILEVA In 1973, Peter I. Kuniholm launched the Aegean Dendrochronology Project, and began building tree-ring chronologies in Turkey, later expanding his research to sites in Greece, the Balkans, and Italy. 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).…”

“…The development of long oak tree-ring chronologies for both the NCE and EM regions has provided data for paleoclimatic reconstructions (e.g. Griggs et al 2007;Büntgen et al 2011) and absolute dates for numerous historical and archaeological sites (Kuniholm and Striker 1987;Kuniholm 2000;Haneca et al 2009). Dendrochronological analysis of NCE and EM oaks imported through long-distance trade has also provided dates for sites outside of these regions in the southern Levant (Bernabei and Bontadi 2012;Lorentzen 2014) and the Red Sea (Müller and Heußner 2012).…”

Dendrochronological Dating in Egypt: Work Accomplished and Future Prospects

“…As the research methodology has been repeated in multiple archaeological contexts around the world, dendroarchaeology has become a discipline in its own right. In the Near East and Mediterranean, considerable progress has been made in constructing long tree-ring chronologies and using tree rings to date artifacts and buildings (Bannister 1970;Kuniholm and Striker 1987;Kuniholm 1996Kuniholm et al 1996;Touchan et al 1998;Cichocki et al 2004;Rich 2013). However, to date, little dendrochronological progress has been made in Egypt.…”