Tree-ring analysis of white cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) archaeological and historical wood in Québec City (Québec, Canada)

Querrec, Lydia; Filion, Louise; Auger, Réginald; Arseneault, Dominique

doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2009.05.004

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“…We use the cross‐dating values to check problems related to the robustness of the chronology, both in the early growth and in recent years (which may already be too damaged) or in samples drying out (Jones, 2010). In addition, pointer years were also identified to support the correct dating (Schweingruber, 1996; Schweingruber et al, 1990; Querrec et al, 2009).…”

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“…Dendrochronological techniques are widely used in archaeology, building history, and art history for exact dating of the tree‐ring patterns in wood; they can be applied to chronometry, chronology, prehistoric and historical behavioral studies, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions (see Schweingruber, 1988; Baillie, 1995; Nash, 2002). More recent studies of dendrochronological dating and the provenance of timber used in historic buildings can be found in Billamboz (2008), Sass‐Klaasen, Vernimmen, and Baittinger (2008), Querrec et al (2009), and Slayton et al (2009). Most of these studies, however, refer to research in central and northern Europe or North America, and only a few look at Mediterranean Europe and other southern areas (see Kuniholm et al, 1996; Nash, 2002; Sass‐Klaassen, Vernimmen, & Baittinger, 2008: Figure 4).…”

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Historical floods and dendrochronological dating of a wooden deck in the Old Mint of Segovia, Spain

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During recent archaeological work carried out in the 16th-century Segovia Mint, Spain, a wooden deck of Pinus sylvestris was revealed covering the hydraulic canals. Dendrochronological analyses allowed us to estimate the dates that trees were felled in order to effect repairs to canals damaged after extraordinary flood events. There are at least three age clusters: (1) 1677-1678; (2) 1690-1698-1700; and (3) 1713-1720-1721-1742. By comparing dendrochronological data with both documentary records of repair work and the inventory of historical floods, the dates of the main floods affecting the building between 1583 and 1771 can be identified. Our work is innovative in that it uses tree-ring dating in historical buildings to reconstruct past flood events, which are then linked to documentary records. It has three main applications: validating documented flood dates, estimating their relative magnitude, and locating new non-documented flood events or previously unknown historical repair work at this UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Historical floods and dendrochronological dating of a wooden deck in the Old Mint of Segovia, Spain

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“…archaeological material (Schweingruber, 1990;Schweingruber et al, 1990;Querrec et al, 2009;Génova et al, 2011).…”

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Extreme pointer years in tree-ring records of Central Spain as evidence of climatic events and the eruption of the Huaynaputina Volcano (Peru, 1600 AD)

Génova

2012

Clim. Past

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Abstract. The study of pointer years of numerous treering chronologies of the central Iberian Peninsula (Sierra de Guadarrama) could provide complementary information about climate variability over the last 405 yr. In total, 64 pointer years have been identified: 30 negative (representing minimum growths) and 34 positive (representing maximum growths), the most significant of these being 1601, 1963 and 1996 for the negative ones, and 1734 and 1737 for the positive ones. Given that summer precipitation was found to be the most limiting factor for the growth of Pinus in the Sierra de Guadarrama in the second half of the 20th century, it is also an explanatory factor in almost 50 % of the extreme growths. Furthermore, these pointer years and intervals are not evenly distributed throughout time. Both in the first half of the 17th and in the second half of 20th, they were more frequent and more extreme and these periods are the most notable for the frequency of negative pointer years in Central Spain. The interval 1600-1602 is of special significance, being one of the most unfavourable for tree growth in the centre of Spain, with 1601 representing the minimum index in the regional chronology. We infer that this special minimum annual increase was the effect of the eruption of Huaynaputina, which occurred in Peru at the beginning of 1600 AD. This is the first time that the effects of this eruption in the tree-ring records of Southern Europe have been demonstrated.

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“…Over recent decades there has been a slow increase of dendroarchaeological work in eastern North America (Stahle 1979;Robichaud and Laroque 2008;Grissino-Meyer 2009;Querrec et al 2009). This region has a rich settlement history and such studies are important for dating structures and inferring wood-use behaviors of indigenous peoples, European colonizers, and American settlers.…”

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Tree-Ring Dating of Historic Buildings in Willsboro, Northeastern New York, and Development of Regional Chronologies for Dendroarchaeology

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Rayburn

2014

Tree-Ring Research

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Historical timbers have been sampled from buildings at 13 sites in Willsboro, New York, on the west shore of Lake Champlain. Ring-width series from 139 timbers have been successfully crossdated and used to develop tree-ring chronologies for ash (Fraxinus spp.), oak (Quercus spp.), pine (Pinus spp.), eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.), and spruce (Picea spp.), which collectively span A.D. 1555 to 1878. Tree cutting dates suggest that Windyview Manor was likely built in or soon after 1799, and a barn and farmhouse at the 1812 Homestead were built in or soon after 1812 and 1813, respectively. These dates are all consistent with documentary records for these sites. Aggregate data for the town suggest a shift in wood use for building during the 19 th Century, with ash and oak commonly used for large frame timbers from the 1790s to 1820s, and hemlock and spruce dominating from the 1830s to 1860s. Chronologies developed in this project are among the first from historical timbers for northern New York and will facilitate further dendroarchaeological work in the region.

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Tree-ring analysis of white cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) archaeological and historical wood in Québec City (Québec, Canada)

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Historical floods and dendrochronological dating of a wooden deck in the Old Mint of Segovia, Spain

Historical floods and dendrochronological dating of a wooden deck in the Old Mint of Segovia, Spain

Extreme pointer years in tree-ring records of Central Spain as evidence of climatic events and the eruption of the Huaynaputina Volcano (Peru, 1600 AD)

Tree-Ring Dating of Historic Buildings in Willsboro, Northeastern New York, and Development of Regional Chronologies for Dendroarchaeology

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