Dendrochronology reveals the construction history of an early 19th century farm settlement, southwestern Virginia, USA

Grissino-Mayer, Henri D.; Maxwell, Justin T.; Harley, Grant L.; Garland, Niki A.; Holt, David H.; Absher, Carl; Beale, Brad; Boehm, Mathew S.; Graauw, Kristen K. de; Rautio, Anna-Maria; Dye, Alex

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.05.038

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“…Thanks to building the composite chronologies of living trees and historical wood, in different parts of the world the knowledge about the history of localities and regions with priceless wooden cultural heritage has been enlarged (e.g. Schulman, 1948;Ważny and Eckstein, 1987;Bridge, 1988;Krąpiec, 2000;Kuniholm, 2000;Büntgen et al, 2006;Obelić et al, 2007;Čufar et al, 2008;Myglan et al, 2009;Grissino-Mayer et al, 2013). The Upper Silesian regional chronology also proved to be useful for dating of charcoal and other wooden remains of objects, used for the reconstruction of smelter settlement in the Opolskie Voivodeship (Malik et al, 2014).…”

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The 443-Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Scots Pine from Upper Silesia (Poland) as A Dating Tool and Climate Proxy

Opała

2015

Geochronometria

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An annually resolved and absolutely dated ring-width chronology spanning 443 years has been constructed using the historical and living-tree Scots pine samples from the Upper Silesia, south of Poland. The constructed regional chronology, based on six object chronologies, covers the period of 1568-2010. It is composed of 178 wood samples with the mean correlation of 0.51, mean series length of 104 years and mean EPS of 0.85. In total, 65 extreme years were distinguished. Their independent verification, based on the historical and meteorological data, showed significant correlation with the exceptionally cold/mild winters as well as severe droughts. The comparison of the extreme years with the other Polish pine chronologies showed similarities in the years with the anomalous winter conditions. Some extreme years can be associated with the exceptional pluvial conditions; these years are common in the Central European hydroclimatic tree-ring records. The construction of this regional pine chronology enables for the absolute dating of many architectural monuments from investigated region. The application of the new chronology for the dating of local wood can support interpretations of changes in the environment of the Upper Silesian region. In the future it can also be used as the basis for climate reconstruction.

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The 443-Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Scots Pine from Upper Silesia (Poland) as A Dating Tool and Climate Proxy

Opała

2015

Geochronometria

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“…Stahle and Hehr 1984;Stahle et al , 1998Stahle and Cleaveland 1988;Cook et al 1999;Pederson et al 2012aPederson et al , 2012b. In addition, previous dendroarchaeological work to date historical buildings in the eastern United States (Grissino-Mayer et al 2012;Therrell and Stahle 2012), including the Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Cook and Callahan 1992), has allowed for the extension of tree-ring records both in space and back in time. This kind of network expansion in turn facilitates further dendroarcheological research (Stahle and Wolfman 1985).…”

Section: The Importance Of Dendroprovenancing For Mobile Wooden Artifmentioning

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“…Although numerous structures have been successfully dated in the eastern United States (e.g. Callahan 2004, 2005;Krusic et al 2004;Grissino-Mayer et al 2012;Therrell and Stahle 2012), few have been published in academic journals or had their findings and data made publicly available (but see e.g. Huber (2006), McDonald (2006, and the Boston Dendrochronology Project (http://www.dendrochronology.net/boston_project.…”

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Dendrochronological Dating of the World Trade Center Ship, Lower Manhattan, New York City

Pederson

McDonald²,

Krusic

et al. 2014

Tree-Ring Research

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On July 2010, archaeologists monitoring excavation at the World Trade Center site (WTC) in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a portion of a ship's hull. Because the date of construction and origin of the timbers were unknown, samples from different parts of the ship were taken for dendrochronological dating and provenancing. After developing a 280-year long floating chronology from 19 samples of the white oak group (Quercus section Leucobalanus), we used 21 oak chronologies from the eastern United States to evaluate absolute dating and provenance. Our results showed the highest agreement between the WTC ship chronology and two chronologies from Philadelphia (r 5 0.36; t 5 6.4; p , 0.001; n 5 280) and eastern Pennsylvania (r 5 0.35; t 5 6.3; p , 0.001; n 5 280). The last ring dates of the seven best-preserved samples suggest trees for the ship were felled in 1773 CE or soon after. Our analyses suggest that all the oak timbers used to build the ship most likely originated from the same location within the Philadelphia region, which supports the hypothesis independently drawn from idiosyncratic aspects of the vessel's construction, that the ship was the product of a small shipyard. Few late-18 th Century ships have been found and there is little historical documentation of how vessels of this period were constructed. Therefore, the ship's construction date of 1773 is important in confirming that the hull encountered at the World Trade Center represents a rare and valuable piece of American shipbuilding history.

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“…When comparing with other studies that employed COFECHA, our cross-dating results apparently have a similar level of quality. For example, the correlations of the sample series segments with the COFECHA master series from our study ranged from 0.41 to 0.88 ( Table 4 ), while those in Grissino-Mayer et al [ 12 ] are from 0.19 to 0.76. For the mean correlation with the COFECHA master series, our result is from 0.498 to 0.830, while those in Therrell and Stahle [ 55 ] is from 0.190 to 0.732.…”

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Tree-Ring Dating of the Reshui-1 Tomb in Dulan County, Qinghai Province, North-West China

Shao

Yin

et al. 2015

PLoS ONE

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Tuyuhun and Tubo were two important states that thrived in north-western China during AD 311-900 in parallel with the Han Chinese dynasties of Sui and Tang periods. The Reshui Tomb Cluster located in Dulan County of the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau is an important cultural relic of the Tuyuhun-Tubo age. The official excavations of the Reshui tombs were regarded as top events in archaeology in the 1980s and 1990s in China. The Reshui-1 Tomb is the largest one among the tombs in the area. Since its excavation, there have been debates on whether the owner of the tomb belonged to the Tuyuhun or Tubo ethnicity. Therefore, accurately dating the Reshui-1 Tomb has a critical place in studying the Tubo and Tuyuhun histories. We collected 7 discs and 11 increment cores of Qilian juniper (Juniperus przewalskii Kom.) from the exposed and fallen beams of the roof of the Reshui-1Tomb. The lengths of the 16 tree-ring records are between 69 and 152 years. Based on a previously developed master dating chronology using Qilian juniper samples from the eastern Qaidam Basin, the calendar dates of the 16 specimens were determined by the COFECHA program and visual dating procedure. The average inter-series correlation among the dated sample series is 0.696, indicating good quality of cross-dating. The year of the outermost rings is AD 715 for the 7 discs and 4 out of the 9 increment cores. Moreover, the ring-width variations of the samples are consistent with the existing chronologies from the region. The presence of late-wood of AD 715 in the samples indicated that the Reshui-1 Tomb was completed in late AD 715 or early 716, which means that the Reshui-1 Tomb was finished in the Tubo age. This date provides direct evidence for archaeologists to determine the owner’s ethnicity and identify of the Reshui-1 Tomb.

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Dendrochronology reveals the construction history of an early 19th century farm settlement, southwestern Virginia, USA

Cited by 20 publications

References 15 publications

The 443-Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Scots Pine from Upper Silesia (Poland) as A Dating Tool and Climate Proxy

The 443-Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Scots Pine from Upper Silesia (Poland) as A Dating Tool and Climate Proxy

Dendrochronological Dating of the World Trade Center Ship, Lower Manhattan, New York City

Tree-Ring Dating of the Reshui-1 Tomb in Dulan County, Qinghai Province, North-West China

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