november, 2023
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Event Details
Charlotte L. Pearson
University of Arizona
Tree-ring and radiocarbon refinements towards more precise chronology for the Near Eastern Bronze Age
Nov 6, 2023 (Monday)
12:00 pm-1:30 pm EST (Zoom)
The event will take place by Zoom: to receive the Zoom link please rsvp to the following seminar link to request access to the upcoming meeting; if the link doesn’t work, cut and paste it onto your browser: https://forms.gle/CtEG3aNU45Vdi48c7
For any questions feel free to get in touch with Allan S. Gilbert at gilbert@fordham.edu.
The seminar rapporteurs, Kutay Sen and Jeiran Jahani (ss5879@columbia.edu, jeiran.jahani@columbia.edu) will send a Zoom link to all email addresses on the RSVP list the day before the meeting so that you can log in.
Abstract
Combining tree-ring records and radiocarbon dating can open new possibilities to enhance chronology, however, discrepancies between radiocarbon dating and historically or archaeologically based chronologies persist. In this talk, we will explore how single year radiocarbon measurements from tree-rings were used to permanently anchor a previously floating tree-ring record from 22 archaeological sites in Turkey and examine the implications of this for dating in Bronze Age central Anatolia. We will also look at the difference that newly proposed refinements to the radiocarbon calibration curve may make to radiocarbon dating across the same time period and consider the limitations and complications of the radiocarbon dating method.
