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9780713476545

A Slice Through Time: Dendrochronology and Precision Dating

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  • ISBN13:

    9780713476545

  • ISBN10:

    0713476540

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-06-02
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Drawing on a further decade of research by himself and others, Mike Baille not only brings the pre-1980 story of dendrochronology up-to-date, but demonstrates the wide and exciting applications of this comparatively new science.

Table of Contents

List of illustrationsp. 6
Prefacep. 9
Introductionp. 11
The tree-ring dating methodp. 16
Oak dendrochronology comes of agep. 32
Art-historical dendrochronology and the limitations of oak dendrochronologyp. 45
Archaeological dating and some ultimate chronological truthsp. 57
Volcanoes and tree-ringsp. 73
Volcanoes and chronology: the AD 540 storyp. 91
Volcanoes and chronology: the Bronze Age eruption of Santorini (Thera)p. 108
Socio-economic information from tree-ringsp. 122
Environmental reconstruction from tree-ringsp. 135
Problems with dating the Shang and the New Kingdomp. 149
Conclusionp. 159
Bibliographyp. 161
Indexp. 172
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