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Tree Rings and the Chronology of Ancient Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Pearce Paul Creasman
Pearce Paul Creasman*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, 1215 E. Lowell St., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Corresponding author: pcreasman@ltrr.arizona.edu
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A fundamental aspect of ancient Egyptian history remains unresolved: chronology. Egyptologists (and researchers in related fields that synchronize their studies with Egypt) currently rely on a variety of insufficiently precise methodologies (king lists, radiocarbon dating, etc.) from which to derive seemingly “absolute” dates. The need for genuine precision has been recognized for a century, as has the potential solution: dendrochronology. This manuscript presents a case for further progress toward the construction of a tree-ring chronology for ancient Egypt.

Keywords

Egyptologychronologydendrochronologytree ringsNear EastMediterranean

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Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , 2014 , pp. S85 - S92
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Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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