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

在国家科学基金会的支持下，库尼霍尔姆博士将继续为南欧和近东开发树状年代学序列。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NSF的部分支持下，他将继续这项工作。在两个野外季节中，他将与同事们一起走访该地区的许多地点，收集旧木材。然后，库尼霍尔姆大学康奈尔实验室的分析将允许将它们纳入主要年表。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，使人们能够确定从考古遗址中发现的木材和木炭的年代。精确的年代测定在这类研究中至关重要。这些信息也将对古生态学家、气候学家和其他使用过去数据的人有用。树木年轮年表不仅将为我们增加对过去人类行为的理解提供基础，还将有助于阐明人类活动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.