Leveraging legacy archaeological collections as proxies for climate and environmental research

F St. Amand, ST Childs, EJ Reitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the causes and consequences of previous climate changes is essential for
testing present-day climate models and projections. Archaeological sites are …

Atmospheric CO2 effect on stable carbon isotope composition of terrestrial fossil archives

VJ Hare, E Loftus, A Jeffrey, CB Ramsey - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The 13C/12C ratio of C3 plant matter is thought to be controlled by the isotopic composition
of atmospheric CO2 and stomatal response to environmental conditions, particularly mean …

Securing timelines in the ancient Mediterranean using multiproxy annual tree-ring data

C Pearson, M Salzer, L Wacker… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Calendar-dated tree-ring sequences offer an unparalleled resource for high-resolution
paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Where such records exist for a few limited geographic …

The global potential of log-driven trees for reconstructing forest ecosystems dynamics

JP Labrecque-Foy, M Montoro Girona - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The composition and structure of modern forest ecosystems result from past and present
climate as well as centuries of anthropic and natural disturbances. Concerns related to the …

[HTML][HTML] First absolute chronologies of neolithic and bronze age settlements at Lake Ohrid based on dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating

A Hafner, J Reich, A Ballmer, M Bolliger… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Specialized and systematic underwater fieldwork at the prehistoric site of Ploča Mičov Grad
at Gradište (North Macedonia) on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid was undertaken in 2018 …

Eneolithic pile dwellings south of the Alps precisely dated with tree-ring chronologies from the north

K Čufar, W Tegel, M Merela, B Kromer, A Velušček - Dendrochronologia, 2015 - Elsevier
We present dendrochronological dating of Eneolithic pile dwellings on Ljubljansko barje,
Slovenia, from the 4th millennium BC, partly included on the UNESCO world heritage list in …

[HTML][HTML] Dendroarchaeology at Lake Ohrid: 5th and 2nd millennia BCE tree-ring chronologies from the waterlogged site of Ploča Mičov Grad, North Macedonia

M Bolliger, A Maczkowski, J Francuz, J Reich… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
On the prehistoric site of Ploča Mičov Grad (Ohrid, North Macedonia) on the eastern shore of
Lake Ohrid a total of 799 wooden elements were recorded from a systematically excavated …

Reconstructing the oaks' growth patterns in Greece with the use of historical timber: Case studies from Western Peloponnese

A Christopoulou, B Gmińska-Nowak, Y Özarslan… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Southern Greece is a region where available oak reference chronologies are still missing,
making dendroarchaeology and dating of historical buildings rather challenging, if not …

A 781-year oak tree-ring chronology for the Middle Ages archaeological dating in Maramureș (Eastern Europe)

C Nechita, O Eggertsson, ON Badea, I Popa - Dendrochronologia, 2018 - Elsevier
From 1997 to the present, a sustained project in the Maramureș region in Romania was
completed with the construction of a 781-year oak tree-ring chronology. A total of 395 …

Pile-Dwellings at Ljubljansko Barje, Slovenia: 25 Years of Dendrochronology

A Velušček, K Čufar - Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe …, 2024 - Springer
Interdisciplinary research on the pile-dwellings in the Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia, has been
carried out, with brief interruptions, since their discovery in 1875. Since 1995 these efforts …