This master thesis presents the use of dendrochronology as a method of archaeological natural sciences for understanding the climate in the past. Samples of living trees and historical/archaeological wood in Krško Basin and Lonja Field were taken and afterwards analysed in a dendrochronological laboratory. The author presumed the samples would allow for an extension of the reference chronologies of Krško Basin and Lonja Field. This would serve as the basis for the long reconstruction of the climate and the unification of the chronologies into a single climatic model of western Pannonian Plain.
The Krško Basin climate was reconstructed till the year 1669, while that of Lonja Field reached the year 1560. Using PDSI JJA, the analysis of pointing years was made, which found no correlation between the two areas. The author explains this by showing the differences in the geography of Krško Basin and Lonja Field. Written historical sources that correspond with identified pointing years were also identified though those regarding Lonja Field exceeded those for Krško Basin. For a better understanding of the chronologies and their extension even further into the past continued sampling is required.
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