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'''Late Roman gap'''. There are a lot of western European oak chronologies which goes back to about the migration period. There are also a great number of Roman time chronologies from Germany, Netherlands, France and England which forms a consistent complex. But the problem is that very few links - if any - exists between those two complexes! This means that it can be argued that the whole Roman time complex is still floating!
'''Late Roman gap'''. There are a lot of western European oak chronologies which goes back to about the migration period. There are also a great number of Roman time chronologies from Germany, Netherlands, France and England which forms a consistent complex. But the problem is that very few links - if any - exists between those two complexes! This means that it can be argued that the whole Roman time complex is still floating!


The link is based upon the work of [[Ernst Hollstein]] and [[Berndt Becker]], but the Hollstein link is proved to be built on chronologies in which erroneously dated samples have been mixed<ref>Lars-Åke Larsson & Petra Ossowski Larsson: [http://www.cybis.se/forfun/dendro/hollstein/hollsteinintro/ ''An introduction to "The validity of the European chronology"''].</ref> and according to the Becker chronology (Southern Germany) there are no information available about the quality of the critical Late Roman/Migration period linkage.<ref>Larsson: [http://www.cybis.se/forfun/dendro/hollstein/becker1/ '''Retrieving some Becker data'']. The "[[Merovingian gap]]" is discussed by Becker but the "Migration period" is totally left in silence. An updated version of the South German Chronology is available as ''[[a100]]'' in the [[East Anglia Incident chronology files]], but there are still no data by which it could be validated.</ref> 
The link seems to be based upon the work of [[Ernst Hollstein]] and [[Berndt Becker]] only. The Hollstein link, however, is proved to be built on chronologies in which erroneously dated samples have been mixed<ref>Lars-Åke Larsson & Petra Ossowski Larsson: [http://www.cybis.se/forfun/dendro/hollstein/hollsteinintro/ ''An introduction to "The validity of the European chronology"''].</ref> and according to the Becker chronology (Southern Germany) there are no information available about the quality of the critical Late Roman/Migration period linkage.<ref>Larsson: [http://www.cybis.se/forfun/dendro/hollstein/becker1/ '''Retrieving some Becker data'']. The "[[Merovingian gap]]" is discussed by Becker but the "Migration period" is totally left in silence.</ref> It is maybe not sure that the Becker chronology did not use the Hollstein chronology as a template. We do not know.  


There are also a possible link between the Northern Ireland chronology build down to first century AD and the Roman English complex, but the final, indisputable link has not yet been found.
There are also a possible link between the Northern Ireland chronology build down to first century AD and the Roman English complex, but the final, indisputable link between them has not yet been found.<ref>Petra Ossowski Larsson and Lars-Åke Larsson: [http://www.cybis.se/belfast ''An Irish tree ring chronology: An interpretation of some raw dendrochronology data published by the Queen's University Belfast''] Nov 28 2010.</ref>


==List of available master chronologies and collections==
==List of available master chronologies and collections==
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* Holstein: Trier area, Germany
* Holstein: Trier area, Germany
* Becker: South Germany
* Becker: South Germany
** A100: Extended and corrected South Germany
** [[A100]]: Extended and corrected South Germany Chronology available in the [[East Anglia Incident chronology files]].
* England (AD 404 -  
* England (AD 404 -  
* West Denmark
* West Denmark

Revision as of 21:47, 3 December 2010

Late Roman gap. There are a lot of western European oak chronologies which goes back to about the migration period. There are also a great number of Roman time chronologies from Germany, Netherlands, France and England which forms a consistent complex. But the problem is that very few links - if any - exists between those two complexes! This means that it can be argued that the whole Roman time complex is still floating!

The link seems to be based upon the work of Ernst Hollstein and Berndt Becker only. The Hollstein link, however, is proved to be built on chronologies in which erroneously dated samples have been mixed[1] and according to the Becker chronology (Southern Germany) there are no information available about the quality of the critical Late Roman/Migration period linkage.[2] It is maybe not sure that the Becker chronology did not use the Hollstein chronology as a template. We do not know.

There are also a possible link between the Northern Ireland chronology build down to first century AD and the Roman English complex, but the final, indisputable link between them has not yet been found.[3]

List of available master chronologies and collections

Anchored in present time

  • Holstein: Trier area, Germany
  • Becker: South Germany
  • England (AD 404 -
  • West Denmark
  • Netherlands
  • (Northern) Ireland

Anchored in Roman time

  • Holstein: Trier area, Germany
  • Becker: South Germany
    • A100: Extended and corrected South Germany
  • England
  • Netherlands
  • Ireland

Notes

  1. ↑ Lars-Åke Larsson & Petra Ossowski Larsson: An introduction to "The validity of the European chronology".
  2. ↑ Larsson: 'Retrieving some Becker data. The "Merovingian gap" is discussed by Becker but the "Migration period" is totally left in silence.
  3. ↑ Petra Ossowski Larsson and Lars-Åke Larsson: An Irish tree ring chronology: An interpretation of some raw dendrochronology data published by the Queen's University Belfast Nov 28 2010.
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