Title: The Wooden Artifacts Of Egypt: Progress And Challenges For Dendro-Egyptology
Author(s): H. ELSHERBINI , H. ABDELBASIR
Journal: SHEDET(Annual Peer-Reviewed Journal Issued By The Faculty Of Archaeology, Fayoum University)
Issue: 2 Date: 2015
Pages: 163-174
Cite as: H. ELSHERBINI , H. ABDELBASIR.(2015).The Wooden Artifacts Of Egypt: Progress And Challenges For Dendro-Egyptology. SHEDET(Annual Peer-Reviewed Journal Issued By The Faculty Of Archaeology, Fayoum University), 2 (2015) pp. 163-174. https://doi.org/10.36816/shedet.002.08

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The Wooden Artifacts of Egypt: Progress and Challenges for Dendro-Egyptology

H. ELSHERBINI , H. ABDELBASIR

We discuss the practicalities for building a tree-ring chronology for Egypt, highlighting the need for a ‘dendro-Egyptological’ approach which uses the principles of dendrochronology in combination with Egyptology and draws parallels with ‘dendroarchaeological’ research across the USA, Europe, and Japan. We also report on published dendrochronological analyses made on Egyptian artifacts so far and identify the main types of wooden resources with the highest dendrochronological potential for different time periods.