Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for the Eastern Mediterranean: Phase II

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，Kuniholm博士将继续研究南欧和近东的树木年代学序列。到目前为止，他已经收集了可以追溯到公元前7500年左右的序列片段，覆盖了土耳其、希腊、意大利和东南欧邻近地区的大部分地区。在国家科学基金会的部分支持下，他将继续这项工作。在两个野外季节的过程中，他将与他的同事一起访问该地区的许多地点，收集旧木材。库尼霍姆的康奈尔实验室将对这些数据进行分析，并将其纳入主年表。这项工作的目标是填补年表中仍然存在的空白，并填补其扩大的范围。这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。最重要的是，从考古学的角度来看，树木年轮年表将提供一种绝对的测年技术，这将允许将日期分配给从考古遗址中回收的木材和木炭。在这类研究中，精确的年代测定是至关重要的。这些信息对古生态学家、气候学家和其他使用来自过去的数据的人也很有用。树木年轮年表不仅为我们了解过去的人类行为提供了基础，而且还有助于阐明人类行为对气候的影响等问题。

Kuniholm With National Science Foundation support Dr. Kuniholm will continue to develop a dendrochronological sequence for Southern Europe and the Near East. To date he has collected sections of sequences which extend back to ca. 7,500 BC and which cover major portions of Turkey, Greece, Italy and adjacent areas in Southeastern Europe. With partial NSF support he will continue this work. Over the course of two field seasons, together with his colleagues, he will visit numerous sites in the region to collect old wood. Analysis at Kuniholm's Cornell laboratory will then permit their incorporation into a master chronology. The goals of this work are to fill in the gaps which remain in the chronology and to fill in its extended range. This research is important for several reasons. Most importantly, from an archaeological perspective, a tree ring chronology will provide an absolute dating technique which will allow dates to be assigned to wood and charcoal recovered from archaeological sites. Precise dating is critical in such research. The information will also be useful to paleoecologists, climatologists and others who use data derived from the past. The tree ring chronology will not only provide a basis to increase our understanding of past human behavior, but will also help to illumine such issues as the effect of human actions on climate.