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