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Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks ... imperial control disintegrated as raiders looted freely across the countryside. Rome’s grip slipped. Britain entered what one archaeologist has ...
The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As their limbs stretch and twist ...
But there's much more information to be gleaned from growth rings than simply a tree's age. This information comes to us through the science of dendrochronology. Tree rings can reveal more than ...
Tree ring widths, which reflect the dry or wet conditions affecting tree growth annually, provide valuable proxy climate data from before historical recordkeeping began. Rui Guo and colleagues ...
Throughout the spring and summer, small groups roamed and plundered the countryside ... The study used oak tree-ring records to reconstruct temperature and precipitation levels in southern ...
ITHACA, N.Y. – Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new Cornell University study.
Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this precise, and even more so. Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern England not only was built in ...