Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 38 (1) 2010

Annotation:  Siliceous Rock of the Southern Urals: Distribution and Usage in the Stone Age Periods, Boundaries, and Contact Zones in the Far Eastern Insular World of the Neolithic (Based on Oyster Cultivation and Archaeology as Producing Activities Early Iron Age Dyupsya Burial, Central Yakutia The “Osmium Trace” in Mineral Inclusions in Ancient Gold Artifacts Social Structure of the Early Medieval Population in the Upper Kama Region (Based on Evidence from t Bronze Helmet Recently Discovered in Mongolia The Matchmaker’s Staffs from Fort Nadym of the 17th–18th Centuries Dendrochronological Survey of the Towers from the Kazym Ostrog Dendrochronological Dating of the Groundsill for the Bell Tower of the Spasskaya Church in Irkutsk Marriages among the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars in the Late 18th – Early 20th Centuries The Altai Cossacks in the 18th – Early 20th Centuries ANTHROPOL A Fossil Human Humerus from Khvalynsk: Morphology and Taxonomy Skeletal Remains from Buston VI – a Sapalli Culture Cemetery in Uzbekistan New Craniometric Evidence on the Origin of the Karelians (the Kylalahti Kalmistomäki Burial Ground) The Maikop Crania Revisited   

Dendrochronological Dating of the Groundsill for the Bell Tower of the Spasskaya Church in Irkutsk

V.I. Voronin.

During archaeological research in September 2007, a groundsill of well-preserved larch logs was discovered under the foundation of the bell tower of the Spasskaya Church, the fi rst stone building in Irkutsk. One of the logs had an outer cambium ring, which made it possible to determine the year of the felling. On the basis of 12 larches of old age from the vicinity of Irkutsk, referent tree-ring chronology was established covering 514 years (1493–2007). It was found that the trees for the groundsill were harvested between autumn 1752 and the summer of 1753. The resulting tree-ring chronology of larch covering several centuries, can be used for dating other historical wooden objects in Irkutsk.

Keywords: Spasskaya Church, Irkutsk, groundsill, dendrochronology, dating.