Posted on 05/31/2014 6:06:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A handful of tree ring samples stored in an old cigar box have shed unexpected light on the ancient world, thanks to research by archaeologist Sturt Manning and collaborators at Cornell, Arizona, Chicago, Oxford and Vienna, forthcoming in the June issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science.
The samples were taken from an Egyptian coffin; Manning also examined wood from funeral boats buried near the pyramid of Sesostris III. He used a technique called dendro radiocarbon wiggle matching, which calibrates radiocarbon isotopes found in the sample tree rings with patterns known from other places in the world that have already identified chronologies, such as the long European oak chronology or the bristle cone pine trees of North America.
Because the dating was so precise plus or minus about 10 years it helps confirm that the higher Egyptian chronology for the time period is correct, a question scholars have hotly debated.
But the samples also showed a small, unusual anomaly following the year 2200 B.C. Paleoclimate research has suggested a major short-term arid event about this time.
This radiocarbon anomaly would be explained by a change in growing season, i.e., climate, dating to exactly this arid period of time, says Manning. Were showing that radiocarbon and these archaeological objects can confirm and in some ways better date a key climate episode.
That climate episode, says Manning, had major political implications. There was just enough change in the climate to upset food resources and other infrastructure, which is likely what led to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire and affected the Old Kingdom of Egypt and a number of other civilizations, he says.
The tree rings show the kind of rapid climate change that we and policymakers fear, says Manning...
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A view of Ipi-ha-ishutefs coffin when originally sampled in 1938.
[S. Cristanetti, A. Whyte/University of Chicagos Oriental Institute] The coffin of Ipi-ha-ishutef showing details of the decorations on the walls. This is the coffin tree ring samples were taken from
But the samples also showed a small, unusual anomaly following the year 2200 B.C. Paleoclimate research has suggested a major short-term arid event about this time.IOW, the "dendro radiocarbon wiggle matching" didn't really match after all. Hitch your wagon to the global warming hoax star, Sturt, nothing else has worked.
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But the samples also showed a small, unusual anomaly following the year 2200 B.C. Paleoclimate research has suggested a major short-term arid event about this time.IOW, the "dendro radiocarbon wiggle matching" didn't really match after all. Hitch your wagon to the global warming hoax star, Sturt, nothing else has worked.
Time machines - someone from the future went back and loaded them up with CO2.
dendro radiocarbon wiggle matching
sounds like an event for the 2050 WInter Olympics!!
Disaster That Struck The Ancients
BBC | 7-26-2001 | Fekri Hassan
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200-year-long drought may have killed Sumerian language
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Posted on Wed Dec 5 09:09:59 2012 by Renfield
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Joseph in Genesis time?
read later
They found the Egyptian hockey stick!
That was my first thought too.
This is news: climate change that was not the fault of white male capitalists living in the US!
So what?
Regards,
This is closer to the time of Babel and near when Abram was born
Geez, I thought climate had been consistent and static until modern man came along to screw it up with automobiles and factories.
damm ancient Egyptians and their internal combustion engines and over-consumption of fossil fuels!
Yeah. That must be the archaeological equivalent of Prof. Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" data manipulation. Fit the data to where you want your conclusions to go.
Obviously the fault of ancestors of Dubya!
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