7. Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı [1991] - Kültür ve Turizm BakanlıÄı
7. Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı [1991] - Kültür ve Turizm BakanlıÄı
7. Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı [1991] - Kültür ve Turizm BakanlıÄı
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drawing by Bemd Kromer, Heidelberg, of the Gordion radiocarbon dates<br />
as they fıt the calibrated master radiocarbon cur<strong>ve</strong> is also shown below<br />
These results ha<strong>ve</strong>been submitted for publication elsewhere. Thus, for<br />
example, if the reader wishes to mo<strong>ve</strong> Ring 730 up a few years to<br />
accomodate the high chronology then e<strong>ve</strong>rything else on the graph must<br />
mo<strong>ve</strong> up an equal number of years. The same applies for moving it<br />
down. Our goal is to get to the point where we can mo<strong>ve</strong> the graph no<br />
longer and can get down to the serious business of studying the archaeology<br />
and history. of the Aegean and the Near East with a time control that<br />
has hitherto been lacking.<br />
The Bronze Age/lron Age Chronology, of course, is onlyone aspect<br />
of our effort. Of almost equal interest to many of our colleagues are the<br />
long Medieval/Modem Chronologies which include the entire second<br />
millennium A.D. and wood from o<strong>ve</strong>r 100 medieval monuments. What<br />
the work of the last dozen years has enabled us to do is to build a wood<br />
'library' by which a number of archaeological, historical, or art-historical<br />
problems may be sol<strong>ve</strong>d and to which other scholars may readily refer.<br />
This resource is unique for the Aegean and the Near East.<br />
Karahöyük-Konya: A 301-year chronology from 16 timbers crossdates<br />
with the 1503-year master chronology. The wood at Karahöyük<br />
Konya was cut at least six years after the Acemhüyük palaces were built<br />
and at least sixty-four years after the Warsama Sarayı at Kültepe. Finding<br />
the bark (and thus the terminal ring)at Karahöyük will gi<strong>ve</strong> us the exact<br />
difference between the construction dates of these major monuments.<br />
Ayanis: A 147-year pine sequence from this site, composed of<br />
eighteen pieces of charcoal (from eight different tress), crossdates with<br />
one piece of pine from Çavuştepe which ends 79 years later and two<br />
pieces of pine from Adiicevaz which end 52 years after Çavuştepe (or<br />
131 years after the last ring at Ayanis). The resulting 278 year Urartian<br />
sequence should be crossdatable with Gordion and other sites to the west,<br />
especially if Professor Çilingiroğlu is successful in saving e<strong>ve</strong>ry worthy<br />
scrap of charcoal that Ayanis provides. Unforiunately, exeavation has<br />
ceased at the two later sites, so no new wood is to be expected from<br />
them. E<strong>ve</strong>n at the present stage of our work, howe<strong>ve</strong>r, the synchronisms<br />
are of interest, especially as they start to tie in with the Urartian and<br />
Assyrian king-lists, as follows:<br />
If Menua (ca. 810-786) builds Ayanis, and if Sarduri i (ca. 765<br />
735) builds Çavuştepe, and if Rusa II (ca. 685-645) builds Adilcevaz,<br />
then:<br />
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