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Tree-ring dating of find site layer at Arslantepe-Malatya; the cylinder seal unearthed contains an image of a threshing-board or sledge; 2049 BCE: Seahenge constructed in Britain; 2300 to 1950 BCE, 1950 to 1700 BCE: A1, and A2 date periods for the Unetice culture, early Bronze Age culture, Europe; c. 1300 BCE
Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree. As well as dating them, this can give data for dendroclimatology , the study of climate and atmospheric conditions during different periods in history from the wood of old trees.
The utility of tree-ring dating in an environmental sense is the most applicable of the three in today's world. Tree rings can be used to reconstruct numerous environmental variables such as temperature, precipitation, stream flow, drought society, fire frequency and intensity, insect infestation, atmospheric circulation patterns, among others. [2]
Variation of tree ring width translated into summer temperature anomalies for the past 7000 years, based on samples from holocene deposits on Yamal Peninsula and Siberian now living conifers. [ 1 ] Dendroclimatology is the science of determining past climates from trees (primarily properties of the annual tree rings ).
Definitions of what constitutes an individual tree vary. In addition, tree ages are derived from a variety of sources, including documented "tree-ring" (dendrochronological) count core samples, and from estimates. For these reasons, this article presents three lists of "oldest trees," each using varying criteria.
The International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) is a data repository for tree ring measurements that has been maintained since 1990 by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Paleoclimatology Program and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology. [1]
1920 — Andrew Douglass proposes dendrochronology (tree-ring dating). 1924 — Raymond Dart examines fossils of "Taung Child," found by quarrymen in South Africa, and names Australopithecus africanus. 1944 — The publication of Tempo and Mode in Evolution by George Gaylord Simpson integrates paleontology into the modern evolutionary synthesis.
Twenty-year smoothed plots of averaged ring-width (dashed) and tree-ring density (thick line), averaged across all sites, and shown as standardized anomalies from a common base (1881–1940), and compared with equivalent-area averages of mean April–September temperature anomalies (thin solid line). From Briffa et al. 1998. [1]