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Anatolian Tree Rings and a New Chronology for the East Mediterranean Bronze-Iron Ages
Sturt W. Manning,1*Bernd Kromer,2Peter Ian Kuniholm,3Maryanne W. Newton3
We report an extensive program of high-precision radiocarbon
dating to establish the best date for a floating 1599-year Anatoliantree ring chronology that spans the later third millennium B.C.through
the earlier first millennium B.C. This chronology is directlyassociated with a number of key sites and ancient personages.A
previously suggested dating is withdrawn and is replaced bya robust
new date fix 22 (+4 or -7) years earlier. These new radiocarbonwiggle-matched dates offer a unique independent resource for
establishingthe precise chronology of the ancient Near East and Aegean
andhelp resolve, among others, a long-standing debate in favor ofthe
so-called Middle Mesopotamian chronology.
1 Department of Archaeology, University of
Reading, Post Office Box 218 Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA, UK.
2 Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Im
Neuenheimer Feld 229, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
3 The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for
Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, B-48 Goldwin Smith Hall,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-3201, USA.
*
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
S.W.Manning{at}reading.ac.uk
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REPORTS
Bernd Kromer, Sturt W. Manning, Peter Ian Kuniholm, Maryanne W. Newton, Marco Spurk, and Ingeborg Levin (21 December 2001) Science294 (5551), 2529.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1066114] |Abstract »|Full Text »|PDF »
PERSPECTIVES
Paula J. Reimer (21 December 2001) Science294 (5551), 2494.
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1068023] |Summary »|Full Text »|PDF »
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