Brita Lorentzen

Former Research Associate & Lab Manager and now at the University of Georgia

Tel. (Lab): 607-255-8650
Email: bel9@cornell.edu

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Classics and Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory, Cornell University, 2014-2019
Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, 2014
Research Support Specialist, Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory, 2006-2007, 2013
Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, 2007-2012
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory, 2004-2006

Dendroecology and dendroarchaeology in the Levant and East Mediterranean
Dendroprovenancing and reconstructing use of forest resources and their ecological impacts in the Mediterranean
Maritime archaeology, particularly dating construction and use periods of shipwrecks using dendrochronology, 14C wiggle-matching and Bayesian chronological modeling
Wood anatomy, identification and botanical analysis of wood charcoal from archaeological excavations in the Near East
Reconstruction of long-term vegetation change in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene through sediment, charcoal and plant macrofossil analyses

Wood charcoal analysis and dendrochronology, Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project, Cyprus
Dendrochronology, wood identification, and 14C analysis in the Orontes Watershed, Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project
Dendrochronology and 14C analysis, Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa, Underwater Excavations
Wood charcoal analysis, Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, Jordan

Dendrochronology and wood identification, Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project, Jordan
Dendrochronology and wood identification, Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project
Wood charcoal analysis, Cyprus Archaeomagnetic Project (CAMP)

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