Of Batavia’s 341 crew and passengers, 40 drowned trying to get off the ship, while all others made it to the ... as archival records of Dutch timber trade before 1650 are rare or lost. But in new ...

His procedure for the cross-identification of ring patterns for “absolute” dating then made him famous ... Douglass examined tree rings found in the fragments of intact timbers and ancient ...

More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway.

A Roman water pipe made of fragments of hollow tree trunks has been unearthed in Belgium. Found near what may be a water ...

Ask any second grader what you can do with the rings on a tree, and they'll respond ... Douglass teamed with an anthropologist to date timbers in pueblos in the American Southwest.

Timber thieves are a slippery bunch. Here's how cops uncovered an underground criminal ring in spanning the Pacific Northwest and cracked down to protect the state's ancient trees. New perk ...

Sokolowicz In 2019, the researchers had an idea: What if they looked at the tree rings of the vessel’s timber to determine ... of one of the vessel’s ribs made from white oak Courtesy of ...

Stringed instruments can be worth millions of dollars, particularly those made in northern Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There are also many copies and forgeries. As a forest ...

By looking at the elevated C-14 in tree rings caused by solar storms, researchers can figure out anchor dates that could help them date wood objects and timbers more accurately. In 2012 ...

Current approaches to reconstructing past climate by using tree ... tree rings. Many of the assumptions are default choices, often chosen for convenience or manageability. "This has made it ...