Pages:  15-25 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2561525

The use of different types of wood at a single archaeological site by the population for various activities significantly complicates dendroarchaeological analysis. The material must be divided into groups, and separate chronologies must be created for each tree species within the site. Additionally, combined with materials from different sources — such as nearby forests and architectural structures — long-term tree-ring chronologies need to be developed for each species, which can be a lengthy process taking decades. This paper, based on analyzing tree-ring chronologies for Scots pine and Siberian pine constructed for the calendar dating of structures at the Berezovo settlement (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug), discusses methodological challenges that help address this issue. These include the use of digital approaches, multiparametric analysis, selecting appropriate data standardization methods, and leveraging extreme values as markers for cross-dating. Analysis of parameters such as density and width of the annual rings from different tree species revealed that the optical density of early and late wood provides much better consistency than linear parameters, enabling more reliable cross-dating. Therefore, the evidence indicates that, in the northern taiga environment, applying modern methodological techniques allows for confident cross-dating of wood samples from different species. This study makes a conceptual contribution to advancing dendroarchaeology methods, and its findings may also be useful in establishing the age and evaluating the paleoclimatic conditions at other archaeological sites.

Keywords: digital dendroarchaeology, blue intensity, dating, Berezovo, Siberia

Information about authors:

Vladimir Myglan (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Siberian Federal University. Akademgorodok St., 50A, corpus 2, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-5268-653X

Georgiy Vizgalov (Surgut, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Surgut State University. Lenin Ave., 1, Surgut, 628400, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation; «NPO «Northern Archeology 1» LLC. Passage 5P, building 9, post office box 398, Surgut, 628305, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-6861-7715

Zakhar Zharnikov (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Siberian Federal University. Akademgorodok St., 50A, corpus 2, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-6505-0824

Valentin Barinov (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Siberian Federal University. Akademgorodok St., 50A, corpus 2, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-3582-3440

Anna Taynik (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Siberian Federal University. Akademgorodok St., 50A, corpus 2, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-7441-6947

Oksana Naumova (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). Siberian Federal University. Akademgorodok St., 50A, corpus 2, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0009-0008-6696-8002

Maya Phylatova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-5828-4809