Well,”tree ring data” fails again.
“The Uluburun Shipwreck - a Dendrochronological Scandal [ 151K]. The Aegean Dendrochronology Project has asserted that a tree-ring date from the ancient shipwreck off Uluburun vindicates the conventional chronology and refutes the case argued in Centuries of Darkness for a major lowering of the Late Bronze Age. Further investigation has shown that this “tree-ring date” is not all it has been claimed to be.”
There's nothing wrong with radiocarbon dating per se, and not even with dendrochronology per se -- it has to do with the screwed up pseudochronology of the eastern Med.
The problem with the UluBurun wreck was, they couldn't get a wiggle match that didn't prove that the ship wasn't built for centuries after it supposedly sank. At first the results looked great, then the full import of the dates involved "sank in" and the dating was rejected by most. The reaction was not unlike what Zahi "Zowie" Hawass said recently.
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