Abstract
The study of hull timber from 27 ancient shipwrecks located along the French Mediterranean seashore has been carried out in order to build up a pool of master chronologies for dendrochronology analysis of Mediterranean timber and to solve dating problems encountered by archaeologists. All shipwrecks are dated according to cargo and board material between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD. The current state of art of ring-width chronologies from 6 conifer species (Abies alba, Larix decidua, Picea abies, Pinus nigra, Pinus type silvestris, Pinus leucodermis) and 2 broad-leaved species is reported. Chronologies span from 5th century BC until first half of 4th century AD. In all, 3 tree species out of 8 and 7 shipwrecks out of 27 are involved in cross-correlations between wrecks. Arguments advanced to explain such difficulties in crossdating shipwrecks are (i) the insufficient length of the overlap between two chronologies, (ii) differences in geographical origin of trees used in shipbuilding, (iii) the poor representativeness of some mean chronologies in terms of regional climate environment.
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