Maczkowski, Andrej; Pearson, Charlotte; Francuz, John; Giagkoulis, Tryfon; Szidat, Sönke; Wacker, Lukas; Bolliger, Matthias; Kotsakis, Kostas; Hafner, Albert (2024). Absolute dating of the European Neolithic using the 5259 BC rapid 14C excursion. Nature communications, 15(4263) Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41467-024-48402-1
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Abrupt radiocarbon (14C) excursions, or Miyake events, in sequences of radiocarbon measurements from calendar-dated tree-rings provide opportunities to assign absolute calendar dates to undated wood samples from contexts across history and prehistory. Here, we report a tree-ring and 14C-dating study of the Neolithic site of Dispilio, Northern Greece, a waterlogged archaeological site on Lake Kastoria. Findings secure an absolute, calendar-dated time using the 5259 BC Miyake event, with the final ring of the 303-year-long juniper tree-ring chronology dating to 5140 BC. While other sites have been absolutely dated to a calendar year through 14C-signature Miyake events, Dispilio is the first European Neolithic site of these and it provides a fixed, calendar-year anchor point for regional chronologies of the Neolithic.
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