Do the results from the developing dendrochronology for Anatolia agree or disagree with CoD?
As with radiocarbon, some loose claims have been made about tree-ring chronology conflicting with the CoD model, but a balanced assessment reveals a very different picture. Professor Peter Kuniholm and his Cornell University team have established a 1503-year ‘floating sequence’ of tree-rings for Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia. When this has been extended to the point where it becomes continuous with modern sequences, it should provide the best yardstick for testing CoD – circumventing some of the uncertainties involved in C14 dating. At present, however, Kuniholm’s ‘floating’ sequence is still reliant on radiocarbon for its absolute dates. In the words of Professor Lord Colin Renfrew (1996, 734): Their work offers the best hope we have for a really sound chronology for the later prehistory and history of the Near East and Egypt, and indeed the eastern Mediterranean in general. But their work is not yet complete. On the release of CoD, Kuniholm unfortunately began giving misleading impres
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