7. Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı [1991] - Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı

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