The importance of “year zero” in interdisciplinary studies of climate and history

The mathematical aberration of the Gregorian chronology’s missing “year zero” retains enduring potential to sow confusion in studies of paleoclimatology and environmental ancient history. The possibility of dating error is especially high when pre-Common Era proxy evidence from tree rings, ice cores...

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Autores principales: Büntgen, Ulf, Oppenheimer, Clive
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2020
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7776855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33293418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018103117
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description The mathematical aberration of the Gregorian chronology’s missing “year zero” retains enduring potential to sow confusion in studies of paleoclimatology and environmental ancient history. The possibility of dating error is especially high when pre-Common Era proxy evidence from tree rings, ice cores, radiocarbon dates, and documentary sources is integrated. This calls for renewed vigilance, with systematic reference to astronomical time (including year zero) or, at the very least, clarification of the dating scheme(s) employed in individual studies.
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spelling pubmed-77768552021-01-12 The importance of “year zero” in interdisciplinary studies of climate and history Büntgen, Ulf Oppenheimer, Clive Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Perspective The mathematical aberration of the Gregorian chronology’s missing “year zero” retains enduring potential to sow confusion in studies of paleoclimatology and environmental ancient history. The possibility of dating error is especially high when pre-Common Era proxy evidence from tree rings, ice cores, radiocarbon dates, and documentary sources is integrated. This calls for renewed vigilance, with systematic reference to astronomical time (including year zero) or, at the very least, clarification of the dating scheme(s) employed in individual studies. National Academy of Sciences 2020-12-29 2020-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7776855/ /pubmed/33293418 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018103117 Text en Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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