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Long oak tree-ring chronologies from Central Russia and their potential for dating
New oak tree-ring chronologies for European Russia built with subfossil oak wood excavated from
the alluvial deposits of the Zapadnaya Dvina (Daugava) River and archaeological samples from Novgorod
and Vyazma are presented. They have been matched with the nearest absolutely dated tree-ring
chronology constructed in Polotsk (Republic of Belarus) and dated to the periods AD649–1382 (Zapadnaya
Dvina), AD 1059–1386 (Novgorod), and AD 1074–1306 (Vyazma). Dates have been further confirmed
via comparison with subfossil oaks from Smarhon (Republic of Belarus) and Baltic 1 chronology
as well as by radiocarbon dating. Newly built medieval chronologies can be used for dating and provenancing
of oak wood originating from archaeological sites and natural archives.