Dendrochronology, dwellings

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Nearly a century after Douglass (1929) demonstrated that tree rings could be used to date ancient dwellings, the interpretation of archaeological tree-ring dates has become more sophisticated with respect to understanding prehistoric wood-use behavior and the discrepancies that sometimes occur between historic documentation, oral history, and tree-ring data. Arguably even more impressive, however, is the fact that tree-ring dating is now routinely applied in areas like eastern and southern North America, in which scholars once believed tree-ring dating would not be successful. The expansion of tree-ring dating to South America and the tropics has the potential to be revolutionary, if sites with well-preserved wood can be found in quantity.

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Nash, S. E. (2015). Dendrochronology, dwellings. In Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series (pp. 197–202). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6326-5_99-2

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