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Este, Padova, Italy: Dating the Iron Age Waterfront

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

John Meadows ,
Nicoletta Martinelli ,
Marie-Josée Nadeau  and
Elodia Bianchin Citton
John Meadows*
Affiliation:
Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie, Schloss Gottorf, 24837 Schleswig, Germany Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Max-Eyth-Str. 11–13, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Nicoletta Martinelli
Affiliation:
Dendrodata s.a.s., via Cesiolo 18, Verona 37126, Italy
Marie-Josée Nadeau
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Labor für Altersbestimmung und Isotopenforschung, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Max-Eyth-Str. 11–13, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Elodia Bianchin Citton
Affiliation:
Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Veneto, via Aquileia 7, Padova 35139, Italy
*
Corresponding author. Email: jmeadows@leibniz.uni-kiel.de.
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Abstract

Two floating tree-ring chronologies were developed from oak timbers recovered during salvage excavations of a pre-Roman wharf in Este, a prominent center of the Veneti people, who lived in northeastern Italy during the Iron Age. Wiggle-match radiocarbon dating shows that one chronology spans the 10th and 9th centuries cal BC, and that the waterfront was probably built ∼800 cal BC. The second chronology apparently spans most of the 7th century cal BC, and is associated with a phase of construction about 2 centuries after the first. One of the samples gave what appeared to be anomalous 14C results that may best be explained as evidence of a short-term fluctuation in atmospheric 14C level, which can be seen in short-lived samples but is not apparent in the decadal or bidecadal calibration data. Both chronologies cover periods for which there are no other tree-ring chronologies in this region, and could become key to refining the local Iron Age chronology.

Type
Methodology: Tree Rings and Plants
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , 2014 , pp. 655 - 665
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Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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