Prehistoric pile-dwellings: dendroarchaeology in the southwestern Balkans

Maczkowski, Andrej (2022). Prehistoric pile-dwellings: dendroarchaeology in the southwestern Balkans (Unpublished). In: Tree-Ring Talks, Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona. University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. 16 March 2022.

A number of wetland archaeological sites have been identified around the lakes in the southwestern part of the Balkan
Peninsula, however only a limited number have been excavated. The constantly wet, low-oxygen depositional environment on such sites provides excellent conditions for wood preservation. Since 2018, more than 1800 remains of construction woods have been sampled from these prehistoric sites, mostly from the Lakes of Ohrid and Kastoria. Hundreds of these samples have been measured and cross-dated, and now represent the first prehistoric centennial and
multi-centennial tree-ring chronologies from the lakes region, covering various periods of the local Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Age. The dominant wood species utilised on the sites are members of the genus Quercus, but
significant numbers of junipers and pines were also recovered, as well as various deciduous species. These floating
tree-ring chronologies were anchored through radiocarbon dating and wiggle-matching. The TRW chronologies will
provide the chronological backbone for integrating various lines of ongoing research on these wetland archaeological
sites.

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