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Ten most prominent medieval buildings – Christian churches, crypts, temples, sanctuaries, battle towers, and living buildings – in mountain part of Ingushetia that contain wooden construction elements were selected to be dated using natural science methods – radiocarbon and dendrochronological dating. These kinds of analyses are performed for the first time in this region – previously all these buildings were only dated by historians, architects, and sometimes by archaeologists. We were not able to acquire dendrochronological dates due to the lack of long tree ring chronologies, but the obtained wiggle-matched radiocarbon dates will serve as new benchmarks for the chronology of architecture in the region. Also the developed floating tree ring chronologies will contribute to the improvement of dendrochronological network of the Northern Caucasus.