How to date an archaeologist: Dendrochronology - Teabreak 29

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

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

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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