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Dendrochronological Dating and Provenancing of String Instruments

Dendrochronological Dating and Provenancing of String Instruments

Published on: October 6, 2022

Olive tree-ring problematic dating: a comparative analysis on Santorini (Greece).

Paolo Cherubini¹, Turi Humbel, Hans Beeckman

¹WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. paolo.cherubini@wsl.ch

|February 6, 2013

Summary

Olive tree-rings are unreliable for dendrochronology due to intra-annual density variations and irregular growth patterns. These factors make accurate tree-ring identification and dating impossible in olive trees.

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Dendrochronological Dating and Provenancing of String Instruments

Dendrochronological Dating and Provenancing of String Instruments

Published on: October 6, 2022

Area of Science:

* Botany
* Environmental Science
* Archaeology

Background:

* Olive trees are ancient and iconic to Mediterranean landscapes.
* Dendrochronology, the science of tree-ring dating, is a valuable tool for reconstructing past environments.
* The potential application of dendrochronology to olive trees has not been fully explored.

Purpose of the Study:

* To assess the reliability of olive tree-rings for dendrochronological analysis.
* To investigate the factors influencing tree-ring formation in olive trees.
* To determine if olive trees can be accurately dated using tree-ring methods.

Main Methods:

* Dendrochronological analysis of olive trees from Santorini, Greece.
* Examination of tree-ring identification using various methods.
* Assessment of wood density, ring boundary structure, and cambial activity.

Main Results:

* Intra-annual wood density fluctuations were observed.
* Variability in tree-ring boundary structure was significant.
* Cambial activity was restricted to shifting sectors, leading to differing ring sequences within the same cross-section.
* Accurate determination of the number of tree-rings was found to be impossible.

Conclusions:

* Olive tree-ring identification is unreliable for dendrochronology.
* Factors like irregular growth and density variations prevent accurate dating.
* Olive trees are not suitable for dendrochronological studies.