Dating Coastal Archaeological Wood From Pingusugruk (15th–17th CE), Northern Alaska: Preliminary Results and Methodological Perspectives in Dendrochronology
International audience Along the coasts of northern Alaska, in a treeless tundra environment, the primary wood resource for coastal populations is driftwood, a seasonal and exogenous resource carried by the major rivers of western North America. The potential of Alaskan coastal archaeological wood f...
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International audience Along the coasts of northern Alaska, in a treeless tundra environment, the primary wood resource for coastal populations is driftwood, a seasonal and exogenous resource carried by the major rivers of western North America. The potential of Alaskan coastal archaeological wood for tree-ring research was first assessed in the 1940s by archaeologist and tree-ring research pioneer J. L. Giddings. Despite his success, the difficulties of dendrochronological studies on driftwood and the development of radiocarbon dating during the 1950s resulted in the near-abandonment of dendrochronology to precisely date archaeological sites and build long sequences using archaeological wood in Alaska. In this study, we explored the possibilities and limitations of standard ring-width dendrochronological methods for dating Alaskan coastal archaeological wood. We focus on the site of Pingusugruk, a late Thule site (15th–17th CE) located at Point Franklin, northern Alaska. The preliminary results have been obtained from the standard dendrochronological analyses of 40 timber cross-sections from two semi-subterranean houses at Pingusugruk. We cross-correlated individual ring-width series and built floating chronologies between houses before cross-dating them with existing regional 1000-year-long master chronologies from the Kobuk and Mackenzie rivers (available on the International Tree-Ring Databank, ITRDB). Additional work on various dendro-archaeological collections using an interdisciplinary approach (geochemical analyses of oxygen isotopes and radiocarbon dating) will help develop and expand regional tree-ring chronologies and climatic tree-ring sequences in Alaska. |
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Dating Coastal Archaeological Wood From Pingusugruk (15th–17th CE), Northern Alaska: Preliminary Results and Methodological Perspectives in Dendrochronology |
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Dating Coastal Archaeological Wood From Pingusugruk (15th–17th CE), Northern Alaska: Preliminary Results and Methodological Perspectives in Dendrochronology |
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Dating Coastal Archaeological Wood From Pingusugruk (15th–17th CE), Northern Alaska: Preliminary Results and Methodological Perspectives in Dendrochronology |
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Dating Coastal Archaeological Wood From Pingusugruk (15th–17th CE), Northern Alaska: Preliminary Results and Methodological Perspectives in Dendrochronology |
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Dating Coastal Archaeological Wood From Pingusugruk (15th–17th CE), Northern Alaska: Preliminary Results and Methodological Perspectives in Dendrochronology |
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dating coastal archaeological wood from pingusugruk (15th–17th ce), northern alaska: preliminary results and methodological perspectives in dendrochronology |
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ftinstitutnrap:oai:HAL:hal-03891205v1 2023-05-15T18:40:35+02:00 Dating Coastal Archaeological Wood From Pingusugruk (15th–17th CE), Northern Alaska: Preliminary Results and Methodological Perspectives in Dendrochronology Taïeb, Juliette Alix, Claire Juday, Glenn Jensen, Anne Daux, Valérie Petit, Christophe Archéologies environnementales Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UFR Histoire de l'art et archéologie (UP1 UFR03) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1) Archéologie des Amériques (ArchAm) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Géochrononologie Traceurs Archéométrie (GEOTRAC) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2022-10-19 https://hal.science/hal-03891205 https://hal.science/hal-03891205/document https://hal.science/hal-03891205/file/ijwc-article-p89_5-1.pdf https://doi.org/10.1163/27723194-bja10006 en eng HAL CCSD Brill info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1163/27723194-bja10006 hal-03891205 https://hal.science/hal-03891205 https://hal.science/hal-03891205/document https://hal.science/hal-03891205/file/ijwc-article-p89_5-1.pdf doi:10.1163/27723194-bja10006 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2772-3186 EISSN: 2772-3194 International Journal of Wood Culture https://hal.science/hal-03891205 International Journal of Wood Culture, 2022, 2 (1-3), pp.89-116. ⟨10.1163/27723194-bja10006⟩ dendrochronology archaeology northern Alaska Thule coastal wood [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2022 ftinstitutnrap https://doi.org/10.1163/27723194-bja10006 2023-03-15T17:21:04Z International audience Along the coasts of northern Alaska, in a treeless tundra environment, the primary wood resource for coastal populations is driftwood, a seasonal and exogenous resource carried by the major rivers of western North America. The potential of Alaskan coastal archaeological wood for tree-ring research was first assessed in the 1940s by archaeologist and tree-ring research pioneer J. L. Giddings. Despite his success, the difficulties of dendrochronological studies on driftwood and the development of radiocarbon dating during the 1950s resulted in the near-abandonment of dendrochronology to precisely date archaeological sites and build long sequences using archaeological wood in Alaska. In this study, we explored the possibilities and limitations of standard ring-width dendrochronological methods for dating Alaskan coastal archaeological wood. We focus on the site of Pingusugruk, a late Thule site (15th–17th CE) located at Point Franklin, northern Alaska. The preliminary results have been obtained from the standard dendrochronological analyses of 40 timber cross-sections from two semi-subterranean houses at Pingusugruk. We cross-correlated individual ring-width series and built floating chronologies between houses before cross-dating them with existing regional 1000-year-long master chronologies from the Kobuk and Mackenzie rivers (available on the International Tree-Ring Databank, ITRDB). Additional work on various dendro-archaeological collections using an interdisciplinary approach (geochemical analyses of oxygen isotopes and radiocarbon dating) will help develop and expand regional tree-ring chronologies and climatic tree-ring sequences in Alaska. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra Alaska INRAP: HAL (Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives) Giddings ENVELOPE(50.733,50.733,-67.400,-67.400) International Journal of Wood Culture 2 1-3 89 116 |