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

Menua-Sarduri minimum = 21 years
Menua-Sarduri maximum '=~
Dendro.difference = 79 years
Sarduri-Rusa minimum
Sarduri-Rusa maximum
Dendro. difference
= 50 years
= 120years
= 52 years
We look forward to the wood that this year's excavations will
unearth. The presence of bark at Ayanis would give us the terminal year
of construction there, and a crossdate with Gordion would pin it down to
within several decades.
Til/e Büyük: A l00-year oak sequence from this site, thought by the
excavators to date from either the end of the Late Bronze Age or the
beginningsof the Early Iron Age, can be crossdated tentatively with the
1503-year master Bronze Age/Iron Age chronology, even though the latter
is mostly juniper, at 1154 B.C.±37 years. The measurement of the Tille
charcoal is not complete, and a slightly later date may be possible if
more rings can be added to the later end of the chronology.
Personnel: Last summer we made our usual 15.000 kilometer trip
through the Aegean and Balkans, bringing back some 400 samples from
53 sites. Participants were Hope Kuniholm, Joan Ramage, Karen Rubinson,
and Eleanor Kuniholm. In the laboratory we had a large staff: 20
new students, 7 old-timers, inc1uding Hope Kuniholm (Laboratory Supervisor),
Carol Griggs (Institute for Aegean Prehistory Fel1ow), Miles
McCredie (Programmer), Esra Köseataç, Joan Ramage, John Huber, and
Sean Cregan. Since dendrochronology is laborintensive (the bar-graph
above is a synthesis of over 7 million ring-measurements), having veterans
available to help teach the beginners has resulted in a great saving of
time and effort.
Since a complete resume of the year's work is impossible in this
short report, selected highlights fol1ow:
Oldest Site: Aceramic Neolithic charcoal from Aşıkh Hüyük (about
9000 B.C.)
Most Famous Site: The c1eaning of Heinrich Schliemann's Great
Trench at Troy yielded an entire dufflebag of Troy I charcoal. Ten samples
from the 226 year Troy chronology which appears on the bar-graph in
the middle of the third millennium B.C. are already in Heidelberg for
wiggle-matching by Dr. Kromer.
Other Early Bronze Age: A 285-year sequence of oak timbers from
74 logs at Kiten, Bulgaria fonns the longest EBA sequence we have
built. The context is Ezero Culture = Troy I/II. No crossdating with the
pine sequence from Troy is apparent.
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