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Absolute Dating of Monoxylous Boats from Northern Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Nicoletta Martinelli  and
Alexander Cherkinsky
Nicoletta Martinelli*
Affiliation:
Dendrodata s.a.s., via Cesiolo 18, 37126 Verona, Italy
Alexander Cherkinsky
Affiliation:
Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, 120 Riverbend Rd., Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
*
Corresponding author. Email: nicoletta.martinelli@dendrodata.it
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Twelve monoxylous boats were analyzed from different provinces of northern Italy by radiocarbon and dendrodating. Most of them were dated in the range 6th–12th centuries cal AD. All boats were made from single tree trunks containing ~50 to ~250 tree rings. The results from archaeometric dating in logboats confirm that these kinds of vessels remained practically unchanged for centuries and were in use until recently. The technical features are more strictly related to local traditions than to chronology.

Type
14C Chronologies, Dendrochronology, Wiggle-Matching, and Calibration Tools
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , 2009 , pp. 413 - 421
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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