Posted on 06/19/2018 9:26:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The analysis was made by comparing Jordanian juniper trees that grew between roughly 1600 and 1910 A.D., according to the researchers... The researchers results indicated that, like in many other parts of the globe, the growing season fluctuates enough to tilt the results. Thus, the traditional Carbon-14 calibration curve for the Northern Hemisphere is not entirely accurate for southern Jordan, Israel and Egypt. The offset averages about 19 years, the researchers said...
The paper contends that massive timeline restructuring could be in the offing, for events both major and minor.
“Although, overall, the Carbon-14 offset identified here produces what may seem to be relatively small dating changes, these are revealed to be of a scale that is important for high-resolution chronological work,” the scientists said. “They are especially important for the contested and detailed chronology debates in archaeological scholarship on the southern Levant region, particularly for those focused on differences of only a few decades, to ~50 years to 100 years in recent high (or conventional) versus low chronology debates.”
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Oh God those poor SOB’s. Just one is about enough to drive me close to around the bend and she is sane and rational and kind. 17 ??? Christ Almighty. They even had rope back then. I would have hanged myself. ;-)
PS. Hope my wife isn’t checking my posts. Might get hanged if she does. LOL
Thanks for the info - very cool.
I wrote a paper about dendrochronology way back in the day (BA, ‘76), in my undergraduate archeology class.
I was a weird kid; didn’t want to take the classically recommended science curricula for a liberal arts degree (i.e., chemistry, biology, etc.). Instead, I went for geology, archeology, and anthropology.
(Oh, and for anyone getting ready to poo-poo a liberal arts degree: I was fortunate enough to go to a university that hadn’t yet been infected by SJW professors. We actually *learned* things, LOL).
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