Tree-rings, kings & Old World archaeology & environment
Subtitle: papers presented in honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm
By: edited by Sturt W. Manning & Mary Jaye Bruce.
Contributors: Manning, Sturt W.; Bruce, Mary Jaye.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781842173862
Subjects: Kuniholm, Peter Ian -- Congresses; Dendrochronology -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses; Archaeology and history -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses; Climatic changes -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses; Human ecology -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses; Social archaeology -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses; Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Mediterranean Region -- Civilization -- Chronology -- Congresses; Mediterranean Region -- Environmental conditions -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: Tree-rings, kings, and Old World archaeology and environment
Notes: Papers from a conference held Nov. 3-5, 2006 at Cornell University.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bibliography of Peter Ian Kuniholm; title: Peter Kuniholm's dendro time / Fritz H. Schweingruber; title: Perspective : archaeology, history, and chronology from Penn to the present and beyond / James Muhly; title: Excursions into absolute chronology / M.G.L. Baillie; title: One hundred years of dendroarchaeology : dating, human behavior, and past climate / Jeffrey S. Dean; title: The absolute dating of Wasserburg Buchau : a long story of tree-ring research / A. Billamboz; title: Is there a separate tree-ring pattern for Mediterranean oak? / Tomasz Wazny; title: Dendrochronological research at Rosslauf (Bressanone, Italy) / Maria Ivana Pezzo; title: The development of the regional oak tree-ring chronology from the Roman sites in Celje (Slovenia) and Sisak (Croatia) / Aleksandar Durman, Andrej Gaspari, Tom Levanič, Matjaz Novšak; title: Dendroclimatology in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean Region / Ramzi Touchan and Malcolm K. Hughes; title: A 924-year regional oak tree-ring chronology for north central Turkey / Carol B. Griggs, Peter I. Kuniholm, Maryanne W. Newton, Jennifer D. Watkins, and Sturt W. Manning; title: Dendrochronology on Pinus nigra in the Taygetos Mountains, southern Peloponnisos / Robert Brandes; title: Could absolutely dated tree-ring chemistry provide a means to dating the major volcanic eruptions of the Holocene? / Charlotte L. Pearson and Sturt W. Manning; title: Dendrochemistry of Pinus sylvestris trees from a Turkish forest / D.K. Hauck and K. Ünlü; title: Neutron activation analysis of dendrochronologically dated trees / K. Ünlü, N.O. Cetiner, and J.J. Chiment, P.I. Kuniholm, D.K. Hauck; title: Third millennium BC Aegean chronology : old and new data from the perspective of the third millennium AD / Ourania Kouka; title: Middle Helladic Lerna : relative and absolute chronologies / Sofia Voutsaki, Albert J. Nijboer, and Carol Zerner; title: Absolute age of the Uluburun shipwreck : a key late Bronze Age time-capsule for the east Mediterranean / Sturt W. Manning, Cemal Pulak, Bernd Kromer, Sahra Talamo, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, and Michael Dee; title: How about the pace of change for a change of pace? / Jeremy B. Rutter; title: Archaeologists and scientists : bridging the credibility gap / Elizabeth French and Kim Shelton; title: Central Lydia archaeological survey : documenting the prehistoric through Iron Age periods / Christina Luke and Christopher H. Roosevelt; title: The chronology of Phrygian Gordion / Mary M. Voigt; title: The end of chronology : new directions in the archaeology of the central Anatolian Iron Age / Geoffrey D. Summers; title: The rise and fall of the Hittite empire in the light of dendroarchaeological research / Andreas Müller-Karpe; title: Aegean absolute chronology : where did it go wrong? / Christos Doumas; title: The Thera debate; title: Cold fusion : the uneasy alliance of history and science / Malcolm H. Wiener; title: Santorini eruption radiocarbon dated to 1627-1600 BC : further discussion / Walter L. Friedrich, Bernd Kromer, Michael Friedrich, Jan Heinemeier, Tom Pfeiffer, and Sahra Talamo; title: Dating the Santorini/Thera eruption by radiocarbon : further discussion (AD 2006-2007) / Sturt W. Manning, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Walter Kutschera, Thomas Higham, Bernd Kromer, Peter Steier, and Eva M. Wild; title: Thera discussion / Malcolm H. Wiener, Walter L. Friedrich, and Sturt W. Manning.