Meadows, John, Martinelli, Nicoletta, Nadeau, Marie-Josee and Citton, Elodia Bianchin (2014) ESTE, PADOVA, ITALY: DATING THE IRON AGE WATERFRONT. Radiocarbon, 56 (2). pp. 655-665.

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Abstract

Two floating tree-ring chronologies were developed from oak timbers recovered during salvage excavations of a pre-Roman wharf in Este, a prominent center of the Veneti people, who lived in northeastern Italy during the Iron Age. Wiggle-match radiocarbon dating shows that one chronology spans the 10th and 9th centuries cal BC, and that the waterfront was probably built similar to 800 cal BC. The second chronology apparently spans most of the 7th century cal BC, and is associated with a phase of construction about 2 centuries after the first. One of the samples gave what appeared to be anomalous C-14 results that may best be explained as evidence of a short-term fluctuation in atmospheric 14C level, which can be seen in short-lived samples but is not apparent in the decadal or bidecadal calibration data. Both chronologies cover periods for which there are no other tree-ring chronologies in this region, and could become key to refining the local Iron Age chronology.

Document Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Times Cited: 0 Nadeau, Marie-Josee/B-5084-2010 Nadeau, Marie-Josee/0000-0001-9616-5632 0
Research affiliation:	OceanRep > The Future Ocean - Cluster of Excellence
Projects:	Future Ocean
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2015 12:33
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2015 12:33
URI:	https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27821

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