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Tree-Ring Dating and Radiocarbon Calibration in South-Central Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Bernd Becker
Bernd Becker*
Affiliation:
Institut für Botanik, Universität Hohenheim, 7000 Stuttgart, Germany
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Radiocarbon variations between 3900 and 2800 bc have been established in La Jolla and Groningen using oak tree rings from a 2350-year floating oak series. Comparison of these variations with the bristlecone pine 14C variations provides precise ages for tree-ring dates of Neolithic settlements of Switzerland and Germany over a period of 1400 years. 14C variations measured in Heidelberg in absolutely dated oak-ring series from ad 250 to 720 show trends similar to those of long-term growth variation of oaks during the same period of time. The influence of the climatic regime on oak growth of this period is discussed.

Type
Natural 14C Variations
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , 1980 , pp. 219 - 226
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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