ABSOLUTE DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL SCALES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES OF THE EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA* The article presents data on absolute dendrochronological scales of medieval archaeological sites in the European part of Russia. To date, dendrochronological scales of 17 archaeological sites - Russian medieval cities-have been compiled for this territory. The main attention is paid to the materials that have been worked on in the Laboratory of Natural Science Methods of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences over the past 15 years. Among them are dendrochronological scales of Tver, Torzhok, Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Vologda, Rostov the Great, Yaroslavl, Kolomna. Key words: dendrochronology, dendroclimatology, dendroscales, dendrodates. Introduction An obligatory stage of dendrochronological research is the creation of dendroscales, on the basis of which research tasks are directly solved. Of course, the final conclusions about the dating of a particular monument (archaeological or architectural structure, construction or stratigraphic stage, etc.) are determined by its specifics, the number and quality of samples, and many other details, but the basis for obtaining dendrodata of individual samples is always the dendroscale. Recently, dendrochronology has focused on the creation of so-called local (regional) dendroscales, which can be used for dating much more efficiently than unified scales suitable for more general purposes [Chernykh N. B., 1996, p. 5]. Despite a considerable number of publications by Russian authors on dendrochronology and dendroclimatology, as far as we know, there is still no special generalizing work devoted to the historiography of the development of these methods in Russia, although this topic has been addressed in the introductory parts of many monographs and articles (see, for example: [Kolchin and Bitvinskas, 1972; Bitvinskas, 1974; Chernykh N. B., 1996; Dergachev, 2006]). According to the well-known Soviet climatologis ... Read more