Medieval oak chronology from Klaip?da,Lithuania |
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| Institution: | 1. Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal;2. WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland;1. Departamento de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Avenida 25 de Mayo 384, 5730, Villa Mercedes, San Luis, Argentina;2. Forest Research Center – National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, INIA-CIFOR, Carretera A Coruña km 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain;3. Instituto de Arqueología, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, 25 de mayo 217, CP 1002, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina;4. Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Ruta 35, km 334, CP 6300, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina;1. Département de géographie and Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, succursale Centre-Ville, H3C 3P8, Montréal, Québec Canada;2. Department of Geography and Centre for Northern Studies, Université Laval, 2405 rue de la Terrasse, G1V 0A6, Québec, Québec, Canada;1. Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Science, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden;2. Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden;3. German Archaeological Institute, 14195 Berlin, Germany;4. The National Museum of Denmark, 1220 Copenhagen, Denmark;5. Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, 0105 Oslo, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Klaip?da is a town in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. Oak timber was actively used to construct buildings in this town until the 17th century. Archaeological investigations began in Klaip?da’s old town in 1979, but it has not been possible to use oak timbers for dating due to the lack of regional chronologies. The goal of this study was to fill this gap by developing a well-replicated oak chronology from timber collected in Klaip?da between 1979 and 1987. The resulting oak chronology from Klaip?da spans 306 years from 1247 to 1552 and includes 62 oak timber cross-sections. The study suggests that the timber was felled in the same local woodland, and that tree-ring widths series from Klaip?da are temperature-sensitive. The negative pointer years mostly coincide with negative anomalies of reconstructed April?September temperature from elsewhere in Europe. The constructed chronology was compared with local chronologies (Vilquro, Smarhoń, Gdańsk) and with oak chronologies made from imported oak timber of southeast Baltic origin (Baltic 1–3, Dutch). We assessed whether it is possible to determine the origins of the Baltic 1, Baltic 3 and Dutch oak chronologies compiled from imported timber. Based on available chronologies, it could be hypothesised that Baltic 1 and Dutch chronologies are originated from western Lithuania and Baltic 3 from eastern Lithuania. |
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| Keywords: | Medieval oak Tree-ring width chronology Klaip?da Lithuania Climate |
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