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Category : Dendrochronology
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Tree-ring Chronologies of Eastern North America
Author: Tree-ring Chronologies of Western North America
Author: Richard L. HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : ARSTAN (Computer program)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Tree-ring Chronologies of Western America
Author: Fundamentals of Tree Ring Research
Author: James H. SpeerPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816526850
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This comprehensive text addresses all of the subjects that a reader who is new to the field will need to know and will be a welcome reference for practitioners at all levels. It includes a history of the discipline, biological and ecological background, principles of the field, basic scientific information on the structure and growth of trees, the complete range of dendrochronology methods, and a full description of each of the relevant subdisciplines.
Tree-ring Chronologies for Dendroclimatic Analysis
Author: Fundamentals of Tree-ring Research
Author: James H. SpeerPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816526840
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Although there are other scientific means of dating climatic and environmental events, dendrochronology provides the most reliable of all palaeorecords. This comprehensive text addresses all of the subjects that a reader who is new to the field will need to know and will be a welcome reference for practitioners at all levels. It includes a history of the discipline, biological and ecological background, principles of the field, basic scientific information on the structure and growth of trees, the complete range of dendrochronology methods, and a full description of each of the relevant subdisciplines.
Tree-ring Chronologies for Dendroclimatic Analysis
Author: D.O. BowdenClimatic Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2000 Years
Author: Philip Douglas JonesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642611133
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
A profound knowledge of the past climate is vital for our understanding of global warming. The past 2000 years are both the period which is of most relevance to the next century and that for which there is the most evidence. High-resolution proxy records for this period are available from a variety of sources. Five sections consider dendroclimatology, ice cores, corals, historical records, lake varves, and other indicators. The final two sections cover the histories of various forcing factors and attempt to bring together records from a variety of sources and provide explanations.
Tree-ring Evidence for Climatic Changes in Western North America from 1500 A.D. to 1940 A.D.
Author: Time, Trees, and Prehistory
Author: Stephen Edward NashPublisher:
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Dendrochronology, the science of assigning precise calendar dates to annual growth rings in trees, provided accurate dates at a time when North American archaeologists had no absolute dating techniques available to guide their analyses. Time, Trees, and Prehistory examines the growth, development, application, and interpretive implications of North American archaeological tree-ring dating from 1914 to 1950. The development of dendrochronology forced archaeologists to radically revise their understanding of the prehistoric past, compressing by nearly fifty percent the time scale of the archaeological record. Basketmaker sites, for instance, were once thought to be four thousand years old; tree-ring application demonstrated that these sites dated well into the present millennium. Classic sites in Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde were believed occupied for nearly a thousand years, but tree-ring dates demonstrated that such sites were often built, occupied, and abandoned in just over a century. Other similar changes in temporal scale forced archaeologists to reconsider their interpretations of the rate of prehistoric cultural change, population growth, and the degree of social and political complexity in the Southwest. Time, Trees, and Prehistory examines archaeological practices of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s and demonstrates that tree-ring dating set the stage that enabled revolutionary developments in archaeological method and theory in succeeding decades.