Securing timelines in the ancient Mediterranean using multiproxy annual tree-ring data.

ABSTRACT: Calendar-dated tree-ring sequences offer an unparalleled resource for high-resolution paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Where such records exist for a few limited geographic regions over the last 8,000 to 12,000 years, they have proved invaluable for creating precise and accurate timelines for past human and environmental interactions. To expand such records across new geographic territory or extend data for certain regions further backward in time, new applications must be developed to secure "floating" (not yet absolutely dated) tree-ring sequences, which cannot be assigned single-calendar year dates by standard dendrochronological techniques. This study develops two approaches to this problem for a critical floating tree-ring chronology from the East Mediterranean Bronze-Iron Age. The

SUBMITTER: Pearson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7165418 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature