The aim of the present study is to attempt assessing the age of a monumental olive tree located between the Antique Cities of Militus (Didim‐Aydın region) and Iasos (Milas‐Muğla region). Wood from the trunk of an olive tree is not appropriate for conventional dating approaches such as dendrochronology or ¹⁴C. The sediments closely located surrounding and beneath the roots of the olive tree are considered indicative of the age of the planting event; therefore these sediments were dated using both quartz and feldspar luminescence signal protocols. Methodological aspects including the preheating plateaus, equivalent dose statistical approaches and dose rate using gamma spectrometry are also discussed, as dating of the associated palaeochannel sediments of the area are presented for the first time in the dating literature. The optically stimulated luminescence and/or infrared stimulated luminescence ages are extrapolated to date the event of the tree planting; it is the first time in the literature that an age is reported for an olive tree in the eastern Mediterranean region. The present study stands as the first experimental evidence that olive trees have been cultivated in the area since the Iron Age.

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利用树根下方的沉积物的发光对橄榄树种植活动进行间接定年：土耳其安那托利亚西南部的一项初步研究

本研究的目的是尝试评估位于Militus古董城市（Didim-Aydın地区）和Iasos（Milas-Muğla地区）之间的一棵巨大的橄榄树的年龄。橄榄树树干上的木材不适用于传统的年代学方法，例如树木年代学或¹⁴C.橄榄树根部周围和下方紧靠的沉积物被认为指示了种植事件的年龄；因此，这些沉积物是用石英和长石发光信号协议标明的。还讨论了方法学方面的问题，包括预热高原，等效剂量统计方法和使用伽马能谱仪的剂量率，因为该地区相关古河道沉积物的年代首次在年代文献中提出。外推光学激发的发光年龄和/或红外激发的发光年龄以记录植树事件。这是文献首次报道地中海东部地区的橄榄树有年龄。