The Early Bronze Age dendrochronology of Sovjan (Albania): A first tree-ring sequence of the 24th – 22nd c. BC for the southwestern Balkans

Maczkowski, Andrej; Bolliger, Matthias; Ballmer, Ariane; Gori, Maja; Léra, Pétrika; Oberweiler, Cécile; Szidat, Sönke; Touchais, Gilles; Hafner, Albert

doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125811

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“…While excavated wetland sites are very numerous and often excavated in Central Europe, several wetland sites have also been found and excavated in Southeastern Europe, notably in the south-western part of the Balkans [30][31][32][33][34][35][36] . Dendrochronological work on these sites led to the construction of several treering width chronologies, which were fixed in time by means of 14 C modelling (wiggle-matching) 37,38 . The archaeological site of Dispilio on the shores of Lake Kastoria in Northern Greece is a premier prehistoric wetland site in the region.…”

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“…The approximate calendar-age chronology of the site has been established through radiocarbon dates, mostly performed on charcoal samples 35,46 . The calibrated date-ranges point to settlement phases between the later Middle Neolithic (~5600 cal BC 47 ) and the Bronze Age (~2100 cal BC 46 ). The excavations at Dispilio have also yielded a great number of wood remains, with over 1200 mapped construction elements in the Eastern Sector to date (Fig 1c).…”

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Absolutely dating the European Neolithic through a rapid 14C excursion

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Francuz

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The discovery of abrupt radiocarbon (14C) excursions (Solar Energetic Particle events, or Miyake events) in sequences of radiocarbon measurements from calendar dated tree-rings, has yielded new opportunities to assign absolute, calendar dates to undated wood samples from widely ranging contexts in history and prehistory. We report on an important tree-ring and 14C-dating based study, which secures the Neolithic site of Dispilio, Northern Greece, a key site for the Aegean Neolithic, in absolute, calendar-dated time using the Miyake event of 5259 BC. The last ring of the 303-year-long juniper tree-ring chronology from Dispilio is dated to 5140 BC. Dispilio is thus the first prehistoric site absolutely dated through a 14C signature (Miyake event), but also the first absolutely, calendar-year dated prehistoric site in the wider Mediterranean region.

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Absolutely dating the European Neolithic through a rapid 14C excursion

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“…Excavated wetland sites are very numerous and often excavated in Central Europe, and several wetland sites have also been found and excavated in south-eastern Europe, notably in the south-western Balkans [34][35][36][37][38][39][40] . Dendrochronological work on these sites has led to the construction of several tree-ring width chronologies, which were approximately fixed in time by 14 C wiggle matching 41,42 . Dispilio on the shores of Lake Kastoria in north-western Greece is an archaeologically significant prehistoric wetland site in the region, considering that it is the only "pile-dwelling" settlement in the Balkans to be systematically excavated over multiple years and over a large area.…”

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Absolute dating of the European Neolithic using the 5259 BC rapid 14C excursion

Maczkowski,

Pearson,

Francuz

et al. 2024

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Abrupt radiocarbon (14C) excursions, or Miyake events, in sequences of radiocarbon measurements from calendar-dated tree-rings provide opportunities to assign absolute calendar dates to undated wood samples from contexts across history and prehistory. Here, we report a tree-ring and 14C-dating study of the Neolithic site of Dispilio, Northern Greece, a waterlogged archaeological site on Lake Kastoria. Findings secure an absolute, calendar-dated time using the 5259 BC Miyake event, with the final ring of the 303-year-long juniper tree-ring chronology dating to 5140 BC. While other sites have been absolutely dated to a calendar year through 14C-signature Miyake events, Dispilio is the first European Neolithic site of these and it provides a fixed, calendar-year anchor point for regional chronologies of the Neolithic.

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Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe: Archaeological Matter, Environmental Context, Research Potential, and Threats to Preservation

Ballmer,

Hafner,

Tinner

2024

Natural Science in Archaeology

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Archaeological remains of dwellings that were originally built in wetland environments and today in many cases are waterlogged, offer rich materials and data due to their outstanding preservation. At the same time, off-site deposits in wetlands bear detailed information on palaeoenvironmental conditions. The unique methodological possibility to correlate archaeological settlementsequences with temporally uninterrupted palaeoenvironmental records in a high temporal resolution, and thus to reconstruct coherent long-term human–environment relationships, is of particular significance. In this opening chapter, the authors introduce the basic parameters of an overarching, contextual perspective to prehistoric wetland settlements of Mediterranean Europe, not only in geographical terms, but also in (inter-) disciplinary, or methodological terms, respectively. Sites from eastern Spain, southern France, Italy, Slovenia, theBalkan Peninsula, and the Bulgarian Black Seacoastare discussed by archaeologists, dendrochronologists, bioarchaeologists, and palaeoecologists. Whereas the waterlogging of the anthropogenic remains and environmental data allow for advanced archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research, at the same time the in situ-preservation of the relevant sites, deposits and findings is at stake due to natural erosion processes and human interventions, as well as increasingly to climate change. To preserve this exceptional cultural heritage, the authors underline the pressing necessity and importance to record, inventory, and protect, or professionally excavate and document these sites.

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The Early Bronze Age dendrochronology of Sovjan (Albania): A first tree-ring sequence of the 24th – 22nd c. BC for the southwestern Balkans

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Absolutely dating the European Neolithic through a rapid 14C excursion

Absolutely dating the European Neolithic through a rapid 14C excursion

Absolute dating of the European Neolithic using the 5259 BC rapid 14C excursion

Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe: Archaeological Matter, Environmental Context, Research Potential, and Threats to Preservation

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