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Timber from Old and Young Trees: Dendrotypology as the Backbone of the Dendroarchaeological Investigations of Prehistoric Fish Traps and Pile Dwellings in South-West Germany
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In this paper, the authors investigated the choice of timber in ancient constructions and underlined the strong relationships between man and forest in former times, illustrated with examples from Iron Age fish traps in the Federsee bog and from Neolithic pile dwellings on Lake Constance.Abstract:
Because of the diversity of tree species and the high variability in cambial age and growth patterns, dendrotypological methods have been developed in an attempt to sort large timber series from prehistoric wetland sites in south-west Germany. Focusing first on cross-dating short tree-ring sequences for different tree species, the work extended step by step towards a wider approach, which embraced aspects such as wood technology and building structures, socio-economics and woodland management, as well as ecology and environmental changes. Following the methodological presentation, investigations addressing the choice of timber in ancient constructions and underlining the strong relationships between man and forest in former times are illustrated with examples from Iron Age fish traps in the Federsee bog and from Neolithic pile dwellings on Lake Constance.read more
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New frontiers in tree-ring research:
Jessie K. Pearl,John R Keck,William Lazar Tintor,Liliana Siekacz,Hannah M. Herrick,Hannah M. Herrick,M. D. Meko,Charlotte Pearson +7 more
TL;DR: From its inception as a scientific discipline, tree-ring research has been used as a trans-disciplinary tool for dating and environmental reconstruction as mentioned in this paper and has been applied in a variety of applications.
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Seeing the forest for the trees: New approaches and challenges for dendroarchaeology in the 21st century
TL;DR: The application of tree-ring research to the study of cultural heritage has seen important conceptual and methodological developments in the 21st century as mentioned in this paper, and the improvement of methods and tools to locate the area of origin of the wood has since become a focal line of research.
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Anthracology: local to global significance of charcoal science
Thomas Ludemann,Oliver Nelle +1 more
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Iron Age utilization of silver fir (Abies alba) wood around the Heuneburg – Local origin or timber import?
TL;DR: In this paper, radiogenic strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analyses were performed on waterlogged wood and on charcoal remains buried in four archaeological contexts from Late Hallstatt period around the princely seat Heuneburg.
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Chronology, Culture and Archaeology: Precision Chronology of Wetland Structures Using Tree-Ring Studies
TL;DR: O'Sullivan et al. as discussed by the authors used tree-ring analysis to build a series of medieval fishweirs at Boarland Rock in the Shannon and Fergus estuaries in Co. Clare.
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Dealing with heteroconnections and short tree-ring series at different levels of dating in the dendrochronology of the Southwest German pile-dwellings
TL;DR: In this paper, a dendroarchaeological approach to the study of young wood among large timber series has allowed a better understanding of the short-term development of settlement showing high variations of building activity coupled with varying strategies of timber supply and woodland use.
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Regional patterns of settlement and woodland developments: Dendroarchaeology in the Neolithic pile-dwellings on Lake Constance (Germany):
TL;DR: For the period of the Neolithic lake-shore occupation on Lake Constance (~4000-2400 bc), settlement and woodland developments were investigated in parallel using dendrotypology, a Dendroarchaeologic approach as discussed by the authors.
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Dendroarchaeology and cockchafers north of the Alps: Regional patterns of a middle frequency signal in oak tree-ring series
TL;DR: In this article, the detection of cockchafer effects in short oak tree-ring series from different periods has led to a reconsideration of the mode of calculation, which now takes into account a shorter time span which is in better agreement with the development of the cock chafer populations (∼30 years).
Abandoned Oak coppice on both sides of the Jura Mountains: dendroecological growth models highlighting woodland development and management in the past
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of clearing and/or management based on coppice has been carried out in two relict co-pice oak stands, one located at Chantrans, on the first plateau of French Jura, and the second one on the Eastern slope of the Jurra near Neuchâtel.
Reactions and recovery times of Fagus sylvatica after drought events derived from ring width and maximum latewood density
TL;DR: Sutmoller et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the growth reactions of common beech (Fagus sylvatica) and sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Mattuschka) Liebl.) to severe drought events.