Trackways and Tree Trunks -dating Neolithic Oaks in the British Isles
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The Midlands and South -west of England are represented by a long oak tree -ring chronology spanning approximately 4500 -3900 BC (calibrated radiocarbon dates). The wood on which it is based originates in a technologically advanced trackway crossing the low -lying Somerset Levels, in a coastal submerged forest probably killed by rising sea -level, and in flood -plain oaks washed down the River Trent. Cross matching between the growth patterns of the three groups of trees is of good quality, yet so far the chronology has failed to cross -date with the long Irish and German dated chronologies. The reasons for this, and the implications of eventual dating, are
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