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- Title
<sup>14</sup>C RECORD AND WIGGLE-MATCH PLACEMENT FOR THE ANATOLIAN (GORDION AREA) JUNIPER TREE-RING CHRONOLOGY ∼1729 TO 751 CAL BC, AND TYPICAL AEGEAN/ANATOLIAN (GROWING SEASON RELATED) REGIONAL <sup>14</sup>C OFFSET ASSESSMENT.
- Authors
Manning, Sturt W.; Kromer, Bernd; Ramsey, Christopher Bronk; Pearson, Charlotte L.; Talamo, Sahra; Trano, Nicole; Watkins, Jennifer D.
- Abstract
The East Mediterranean Radiocarbon (inter-)Comparison Project (EMRCP) has measured the 14C ages of a number of sets of tree rings from the Gordion Area dendrochronology from central Anatolia at the Heidelberg Radiocarbon Laboratory. In several cases, multiple measurements were made over a period from the 1980s to 2009. This paper presents the final data set from this work (128 high-precision measurements), and considers (i) the relationship of these data against the standard Northern Hemisphere 14C calibration data set (IntCal09), and (ii) the optimum calendar dating of this floating tree- ring record on the basis of the final set of high-precision 14C data. It finds good agreement between the Anatolian data and IntCal09 in some important intervals (e.g. ∼ 1729 to 1350 cal BC) and observes one period (9th-8th centuries BC) where there appears to be some indication of a regional/growing season signal, and another period (later 14th-13th centuries BC) where IntCal09 may not best reflect the real 14C record. The scale of the typical growing-season-related regional 14C offset (ΔR) between the Aegean/Anatolian region and IntCal09 is also assessed (for the mid-2nd millennium BC and mid-2nd millennium AD), and found to be usually minor (at times where there are no major additional forcing factors and/or issues with the IntCal09 data set): of the order of 2-4 ± 2-4 yr.
- Publication
Radiocarbon, 2010, Vol 52, Issue 4, p1571
- ISSN
0033-8222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0033822200056320