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

Sisak: (=Roman Siscia, Yugoslavia) Sisak now has a continuous 306
year oak chronology covering the 2 nd century A.D. to the lst/2nd
century B.C. The chronology is positioned on the basis of a coin of Tiberius
found inside the iron shoe ofone ofthe pilings. .
Other Roman (always a problem because there is usually so little of
it): A salvage exeavation by the Malatya Museum personnel of a Iate ıst
century A. D. barrel-vaulted tomb near Darende yielded a dozen cedar
boards, probab1y from one or at the most two trees, whose 116 year ring
sequence covers the transition from AD to BC, alsa crossdating with
the 440+ year ring sequence from the Comacchio Boat reported on last
year.
Samsun, Çarşamba: The Gökçeli (Mezarlık içi) Camii at Çarşamba
built almost entirely of oak (the local name is pelit ) was constructed in
1206, the very year that the Turks moved into the region under Giyasettin
I. Keyhusrev. The porch was added or repaired in 1335.
Kastamonu, Kasabakôy, Mahmut Bey Camii: Timbers recentIy
removed from under the building during a restoration by the Vakıflar Genel
Müdürlüğü were cut in 1366, the year of the inscription, showing that
the floor was original rather than alater repair.
Kızılırmak River: An oak log found by the D.S.İ in the alluvium
of the Kızılırmak has a ring sequence from 1656-1788. The closest parallels
to the Kızılırmak ring-profile are to be found in certain buildings in
Thessaloniki, a clear dernonstration for patterns of Ottoman timber trade
in the 18 th century.
Extension Of Our Crossdating Zone to the South-West: Pine trees
from the Samaria Gorge National Park in Crete crossdate with pines from
Kaz Dağ near Edremit, cedars and junipers from Elmalı/Antalya, and
pines from Cyprus. This means that we can expect charcoal from the
Cretan Palaces to crossdate with the long chronology mentioned above.
Prospects: As I said at the beginning of this report, I think we are on
the verge of having a free-stand ing, independent means by which to try
to resolve the various predicaments that make the study of Aegean and
Near Eastem archaeology the chronological quagmire to which both
Hayes and Mellaart were alluding. If we can do that, the whole enterprise
will have been well worth the effort.
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