Aegean Dendrochronology Project

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The Aegean Dendrochronology Project (project for tree ring dating of wood finds from the extended Aegean region) is a dendrochronological project to create a complete range of tree ring chronologies for various tree species in Italy and Greece , as well as Anatolia , Georgia , Lebanon and Egypt . The project was started in 1973 by Peter Ian Kuniholm, who is a lecturer at Cornell University in New York .

The employees take samples from wood finds and artefacts and have so far carried out 10 million tree ring determinations. A scale for oak covers the period from 2004 to 518 BC. From. A period of 9,000 years is still partially incomplete.

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