been dated, through dendochronology, by the A.D.P. as occurring in 1628 B.C. Before this, for a long time, archaeologists believed the eruption to have occurred later, at 1500 B.C. These findings therefore confirmed research going on at the time that also suggested the eruption occurred in 1628 B.C.This is vastly important, and clearly shows the importance of dendochronology, as these results actually move back the late Aegean Bronze age by up to a century. This new chronology consequently provided new evidence for other events. For example, using dendrochronology, timber discovered at a shipwreck site was dated as being cut down in 1316 B.C. This site contained a piece of jewellery ( a gold scarab ) with the name of Queen Nefertiti carved upon it. As this piece would not have been created until Nefertiti became queen, thus the wood proves that by that time ( 1316 B.C. ) she was on the throne; therefore substantiating previous archaeological research.Archaeological dendrochronology has been successful throughout the world. In Novgorod in Russia, in 1963 and 67 archaeologist Kolchin’s use of dendrochronology yielded the discovery of a set of split-log roadways. As they sank over the years into the substrate, they bore much evidence of conflagrations. He also managed to achieve accurate dating for the houses and churches there. In 1942, an archaeologist called Giddings used the process at Point Hope in Alaska in order to prove that some of the buildings, made of whalebone and wood, had been constructed using trees that had actually been drifting around the Arctic Circle for over one hundred years. Similarly, at some 13 sites in Arizona, dendrochronology revealed a great deal, environmentally and concerning general way of life. The archaeologist, Dean, managed to establish that the environment at Betatakin had remained unchanged for 700 years. Conversely at the neighbouring site of Kiet Siel the opposite was true. Similarly whereas ...
