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 ...

Not all trees form rings—they only occur in trees that have a down time when they do not grow, such as fall and winter. Trees in the tropics that grow year-round do not form annual rings.

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.

A few timbers were sent back to New York, just 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of the World Trade Center, to the Tree Ring Laboratory ... had plenty of wood so it made lots of sense that 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.

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 ...

Today, trying to find a tree in this area that ... come to the lab,” she said. The ship, made mostly of oak, was identified as having been built with timbers cut down a few years before the ...