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Potential for a New Multimillennial Tree-Ring Chronology from Subfossil Balkan River Oaks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Charlotte L. Pearson ,
Tomasz Ważny ,
Peter I. Kuniholm ,
Katarina Botić ,
Aleksandar Durman  and
Katherine Seufer
Charlotte L. Pearson*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, 1215 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Tomasz Ważny
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, 1215 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Institute for the Study, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Sienkiewicza 30/32, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Peter I. Kuniholm
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, 1215 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Katarina Botić
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Ljudevita Gaja 32, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia
Aleksandar Durman
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Ivana Lučića 3, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia
Katherine Seufer
Affiliation:
2699 Derby Street, Apt. 1, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
*
Corresponding author: c.pearson@ltrr.arizona.edu.
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A total of 272 oak (Quercus sp.) samples have been collected from large subfossil trees dredged from sediment deposited by the Sava and various tributary rivers in the Zagreb region of northwestern Croatia, and in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Measurement series of tree-ring widths from these samples produced 12 groups, totaling 3456 years of floating tree-ring chronologies spread through the last ca. 8000 years. This work represents the first step in creating a new, high-resolution resource for dating and paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Balkan region and potentially a means to bridge between the floating tree-ring chronologies of the wider Mediterranean region and the continuous long chronologies from central Europe.

Keywords

subfossil oakdendrochronologyBalkanspaleoclimate

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Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , 2014 , pp. S51 - S59
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