World's oldest dendrochronologically dated archaeological wood construction

Rybníček, Michal; Kočár, Petr; Muigg, Bernhard; Peška, Jaroslav; Sedláček, Radko; Tegel, Willy; Kolář, Tomáš

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2020.105082

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“…BC. The Ostrov well has a similar range (5341-4934 BC), but it ends 319 years earlier (Rybníček et al 2020). The dating of the Mohelnice well, where one date of 5533 ± 65 cal.…”

Section: Construction and Function Of The Wooden Wellmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…If we compare the results of dendrochronological dating of recently excavated LBK wells in Czechia, the Uničov well from 5093-5085 BC is the youngest. Velim well is from the turn of 5196 and 5195 BC (Rybníček et al 2018, 100-101) and the oldest is the Ostrov well from the turn of 5256 and 5255 BC (Rybníček et al 2020). Other European LBK wells from which dendrodates have been obtained fall within a similar time interval.…”

Section: Construction and Function Of The Wooden Wellmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Tegel et al 2012). Comparable grooved construction, except the last LBK well found at Ostrov (Rybníček et al 2020), are only known from the Bronze Age, the Roman period and the Middle Ages, that is at least three thousand years later (Gollnisch-Moos 1999;Rageth 1986;Tegel et al 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Kr. (Rybníček et al 2020). Další evropské LBK studny, ze kterých byla získána dendrodata, spadají do podobného časového intervalu (Tegel et al 2012;Kretschmer et al 2016;Friedrich 2017, 421-440).…”

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Wooden Well at the First Farmers’ Settlement Area in Uničov, Czech Republic

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Some of the most extraordinary finds from the Early Neolithic period are wooden wells. These constructions permit unusual insights into Neolithic settlements, their subsistence and environment, as well as into the surrounding landscape. A recent excavation of a Neo lithic settlement at Uničov in central Moravia, Czech Republic, yielded the discovery of a wooden well with a sediment infill from the beginning of the Neolithic period and allowed to study an array of topics by a multi-proxy approach using a set of complementary methods. Our study of the wooden lining demonstrates the carpeting skills of the first farmers, required also for building so-called ‘longhouses’. By comparing dendrochronological and radiocarbon dating, we estimated the time span of the well’s existence. The construction was used repeatedly over a longer time and was finally filled in intentionally. Studies of the well’s infill shed light on its usage and decline, providing a great proxy for the study of living dynamics and handling of waste in a Neolithic village. The environmental record extracted from botanical residues indicates that the immediate surroundings of the settlement were covered by an open-canopy woodland with a dominance of oak and hazel, and a large proportion of open habitats, whereas the surrounding landscape was not noticeably affected by humans. Key Words: Wooden well, past environment, subsistence strategy, Linearbandkeramik, Uničov, eastern Central Europe

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“…BC. The Ostrov well has a similar range (5341-4934 BC), but it ends 319 years earlier (Rybníček et al 2020). The dating of the Mohelnice well, where one date of 5533 ± 65 cal.…”

Section: Construction and Function Of The Wooden Wellmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Construction and Function Of The Wooden Wellmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Construction and Function Of The Wooden Wellmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…This is called cross-dating in dendrochronology [8,9]. Cross-dating has been broadly applied to date annual rings in forest trees to investigate their dead and/or wounded years [10,11] as well as use their wood in archaeological architecture [12], wood craft [13], picture frames [14], musical instruments [15], and tracing wood trade [16]. The dating results of the cuts in tree rings could provide historical information on natural events, e.g., forest fire [17,18], landslide [19], flash flood [20,21], insect damage [22], and human activities, e.g., resin or latex collections.…”

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Reconstruction of Resin Collection History of Pine Forests in Korea from Tree-Ring Dating

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Resin is one of the traditional non-timber forest products in the Republic of Korea. In order to investigate the chronological activity of resin collection, the wounds/cuts on red pines (Pinus densiflora) were dated using a tree-ring analysis technique. Additionally, the size of the trees in the resin collection years and the present conditions of the trees were investigated to verify the tree conditions and the size of wounds. Eighty-eight red pines distributed over nine sites in the Republic of Korea were selected to extract increment cores and investigate the wound size. Through the tree-ring analysis, the trees with big wounds (24.7 × 104.7 cm) made via panel hacksaw method were dated in the range 1938–1952, whereas small wounds (40.2 × 20.9 cm) made via the conventional chisel method were dated between 1956 and 1973. Moreover, the red pines thicker than 20.0 cm were the ones that were used for resin collection. Furthermore, the wounds created by the conventional chisel were healed with time, whereas the ones formed via the panel hacksaw method still required long times for healing. The large wounds had the advantage of supplying a large amount of resin, but this was temporary. On the other hand, the smaller wounds formed via the traditional chisel method could generate resin for a longer time and heal faster.

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Seeing the forest for the trees: New approaches and challenges for dendroarchaeology in the 21st century

Domínguez‐Delmás

2020

Dendrochronologia

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World's oldest dendrochronologically dated archaeological wood construction

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

Wooden Well at the First Farmers’ Settlement Area in Uničov, Czech Republic

Wooden Well at the First Farmers’ Settlement Area in Uničov, Czech Republic

Reconstruction of Resin Collection History of Pine Forests in Korea from Tree-Ring Dating

Seeing the forest for the trees: New approaches and challenges for dendroarchaeology in the 21st century

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