Editing Kültepe (section)

=== Dating of Waršama Sarayi ===
At Level II, the destruction was so total that no wood survived for [[dendrochronology|dendrochronological studies]]. In 2003, researchers from [[Cornell University]] dated wood in level Ib from the rest of the city, built centuries earlier. The dendrochronologists date the bulk of the wood from buildings of the Waršama Sarayi to 1832 BC, with further refurbishments up to 1779 BC.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arts.cornell.edu/dendro/TUBA-ARCaptured.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-07-03 |archive-date=2007-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927050504/http://www.arts.cornell.edu/dendro/TUBA-ARCaptured.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2016 new research using radiocarbon dating and dendrology on timber used in this site and the palace in Acemhöyük show the likely earliest use of the palace as not before 1851–1842 BC (68.2% hpd) or 1855–1839 BC (95.4% hpd).<ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0157144|pmid = 27409585|pmc = 4943651|title = Integrated Tree-Ring-Radiocarbon High-Resolution Timeframe to Resolve Earlier Second Millennium BCE Mesopotamian Chronology|journal = PLOS ONE|volume = 11|issue = 7|pages = e0157144|year = 2016|last1 = Manning|first1 = Sturt W.|last2 = Griggs|first2 = Carol B.|last3 = Lorentzen|first3 = Brita|last4 = Barjamovic|first4 = Gojko|last5 = Ramsey|first5 = Christopher Bronk|last6 = Kromer|first6 = Bernd|last7 = Wild|first7 = Eva Maria|bibcode = 2016PLoSO..1157144M|doi-access = free}}</ref> In combination with the many Assyrian objects found here, this dating shows that only middle or low-middle chronology are the only remaining possible chronologies that fit these new data.