Project Details
Projekt
Assembly of a dendrochronological data bank along the southern coast of the Baltic Sea and its application as a dating tool and climatic archive
Applicant
Professor Dr. Dieter Eckstein
Subject Area
Palaeontology
Term
from 2002 to 2009
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5469791
Dendrochronology is part of a multi-disciplinary overall research concept designed for six years. In its first phase, both a continuous tree-ring chronology as well as 14C dated "floating" chronologies for the age determination of archaeological and marine geological situations will be established. This project part is able to start up with earlier contributions of other dendrochronological working teams as well as with earlier own work. The length of the regional tree-ring chronology achievable within three years depends on the amount of wood samples available but the prospects are reasonable. Our results will be passed on to the marine-geological projects to the archaeological projects and the modelling projects. In the second project phase, these works will be continued although the extraction of climatic information out of the tree rings will then be more in the foreground. Altogether, a better understanding of changes in archaeological settlements and of geological processes will be made possible, and finally, the climatic models can be validated by such dendroclimatological reconstruction.
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