Kuniholm - Karahoyuk - JUSP - ITRDB TURK045 Kuniholm, P.I.; Newton, M.; Griggs, C.; Lorentzen, B.; Manning, S.W. Kuniholm, P.I. Newton, M. Griggs, C. Lorentzen, B. Manning, S.W. 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units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK144; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK145; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK147; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK011; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK041; 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units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK474; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK584; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK081; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK131; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK135; 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units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK582; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK605; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: KBK619; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree-ring (Karahöyük>LATITUDE 37.7333>LONGITUDE 32.6333) 500 years of ancient Near Eastern history from the earlier second millennium BCE, including such pivotal figures as Hammurabi of Babylon, Šamši-Adad I (who conquered Aššur) and Zimrilim of Mari, has long floated in calendar time subject to rival chronological schemes up to 150+ years apart. Texts preserved on clay tablets provide much information, including some astronomical references, but despite 100+ years of scholarly effort, chronological resolution has proved impossible. Documents linked with specific Assyrian officials and rulers have been found and associated with archaeological wood samples at Kültepe and Acemhöyük in Turkey, and offer the potential to resolve this long-running problem. Here we show that previous work using tree-ring dating to place these timbers in absolute time has fundamental problems with key dendrochronological crossdates due to small sample numbers in overlapping years and insufficient critical assessment. To address, we have integrated secure dendrochronological sequences directly with radiocarbon (14C) measurements to achieve tightly resolved absolute (calendar) chronological associations and identify the secure links of this tree-ring chronology with the archaeological-historical evidence. The revised tree-ring-sequenced 14C time-series for Kültepe and Acemhöyük is compatible only with the so-called Middle Chronology and not with the rival High, Low or New Chronologies. This finding provides a robust resolution to a century of uncertainty in Mesopotamian chronology and scholarship, and a secure basis for construction of a coherent timeframe and history across the Near East and East Mediterranean in the earlier second millennium BCE. Our re-dating also affects an unusual tree-ring growth anomaly in wood from Porsuk, Turkey, previously tentatively associated with the Minoan eruption of the Santorini volcano. This tree-ring growth anomaly is now directly dated ~1681-1673 BCE (68.2% highest posterior density range), ~20 years earlier than previous assessments, indicating that it likely has no association with the subsequent Santorini volcanic eruption. STUDY NOTES: The absolute dates (BCE) in the top header represent the mean of the 14C-calibrated dates with a 2-sigma range (see Figure 6 in Manning et al. 2016 PLOS One). The three data sets from those sites crossdate with each other and the Relative Years (RY) of the data sets were determined by those crossdates (stated as a Middle Bronze Age, MBA, chronology in Manning et al. 2016). The absolute dates were determined by the tree-ring sequenced "wiggle matching" of a series of 14C ages on segments of wood with known relative positions and spacing in the Acemhoyuk, Kultepe and Karahoyuk tree-ring chronologies. NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-02-05. NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce Investigator : Kuniholm, P.I. Investigator : Newton, M. Investigator : Griggs, C. Investigator : Lorentzen, B. Investigator : Manning, S.W. 2016-05-12 ONLINE Files online, ASCII https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/20792 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/europe/turk045.rwl https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/correlation-stats/turk045.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/europe/turk045-noaa.rwl https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/europe/turk045.rwl https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/correlation-stats/turk045.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/europe/turk045-noaa.rwl English https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/20792 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/europe/turk045.rwl https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/correlation-stats/turk045.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/europe/turk045-noaa.rwl Sturt W. Manning, Carol B. Griggs, Brita Lorentzen, Gojko Barjamovic, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Bernd Kromer, Eva Maria Wild 2016Integrated Tree-Ring-Radiocarbon High-Resolution Timeframe to Resolve Earlier Second Millennium BCE Mesopotamian ChronologyPLoS ONEe015714411710.1371/journal.pone.0157144http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0157144 START YEAR: -2084 AD * END YEAR: -1821 AD 32.6333 37.7333 32.6333 37.7333