Archaeometiy 1994, Ankara LONG TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES FOR THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

The goal of the Aegean Dendrochronology Project is a continuous time-1inefi.om the present to at least 7500 BC. Twenty consecutive years offield-work in Anatolia and neighboring lands have allowed us to fill in about two-thirds of the calendar between the present and 7200 BC, or about 6000 years. New dimensions have been the development of almost 700 years of Neolithic chronologies and a 577 year chronology for the EBA which ought to fit on the early end of the I761 year MBA/LBA/IA master chronology extending fi.om about 2259 to about 498 BC. The latter chronology is pinned in place. or wiggle matched, by I8 radiocarbon dates of specifically selected ring-groups so that the error margin is 237 years. Our second longest chronology. 106