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 ...

"What determined the exactness of the construction date of the ship was the use of [tree ring dating]," said Cook, "which was made possible by recovering timber from the ship. "It really is the ...

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.

In a new paper, the authors explain how harvesting data from tree-rings could revolutionize ... like secret clocks contained in timber, papyri, baskets made from living plants or other organic ...

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 ...

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.

Dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, provides absolute dates in two different ways: directly, and by calibrating radiocarbon results. Direct Dating of Wood Cross-dating determines the age 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 ...