4min chapter

Tides of History cover image

When Did Things Happen in the Ancient World? Interview with Professor Sturt Manning

Tides of History

CHAPTER

Dendra Chronology - How to Build a Longer Chronology

All dendra chronologies are built by starting with forest trees, where you go out with an increment corups the device that allow yhou to measure tree rings. And once we've linked them together, we can then say we've got a chronology that we certain confided on. So now if i were excavating somewhere in southern germany, and i find the lump of wood from some site that's got 200 rings, and then i go look its deciduous oak, they have this wonderful oak chronology. You would expect it to match against that. But suddenly, rather than being told ois very old, youd be going, they know that fits in five

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode