Tea-Break Archaeology

How to date an archaeologist: Dendrochronology - Ep 29


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It's time for the next installment of Tea-break Time Travel Training and this month we're showing the trees some love and looking into the details of dendrochronology! It seems like a simple concept but how much do you really know about tree rings? How do they form? How can we use them to date a site that's thousands of years old? And what does all this have to do with solar flares? Tune in to find out these answers and more!

Transcripts
  • For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/teabreak/29
Links
  • Paper: Dendrochronology and Other Applications of Tree-ring Studies in Archaeology
  • Paper: Archaeological dendrochronology
  • Dendrochronology paper from A. E. Douglass
  • Information on growth rings
  • Divergence Problem
  • Future of Dendrochronology
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