Locating the origins of wood resources: a review of dendroprovenancing

Bridge, MC

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.04.028

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“…See Commentary on page 1118. artifacts, musical instruments, and paintings on oak panels (17)(18)(19)(20). These techniques are underused in North America, but recent efforts in the northeastern United States have revealed distant, inland sources for 18th-and 19th-century nautical timbers (21,22).…”

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Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon

Guiterman

Swetnam

Dean

2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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An enduring mystery from the great houses of Chaco Canyon is the origin of more than 240,000 construction timbers. We evaluate probable timber procurement areas for seven great houses by applying tree-ring width-based sourcing to a set of 170 timbers. To our knowledge, this is the first use of tree rings to assess timber origins in the southwestern United States. We found that the Chuska and Zuni Mountains (>75 km distant) were the most likely sources, accounting for 70% of timbers. Most notably, procurement areas changed through time. Before 1020 Common Era (CE) nearly all timbers originated from the Zunis (a previously unrecognized source), but by 1060 CE the Chuskas eclipsed the Zuni area in total wood imports. This shift occurred at the onset of Chaco florescence in the 11th century, a time with substantial expansion of existing great houses and the addition of seven new great houses in the Chaco Core area. It also coincides with the proliferation of Chuskan stone tools and pottery in the archaeological record of Chaco Canyon, further underscoring the link between land use and occupation in the Chuska area and the peak of great house construction. Our findings, based on the most temporally specific and replicated evidence of Chacoan resource procurement obtained to date, corroborate the long-standing but recently challenged interpretation that large numbers of timbers were harvested and transported from distant mountain ranges to build the great houses at Chaco Canyon.

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“…These beams comprise six tree species from seven great-house structures (Table S1). Tree-ring-based sourcing uses correlation and Student's t tests between beams of unknown origin and site chronologies from likely timber harvesting areas (17) (Fig. S1).…”

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Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon

Guiterman

Swetnam

Dean

2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…that timber was locally sourced). This is a reasonable assumption in the case of relatively humble dwelling houses, although may not be appropriate in the case of grander cathedrals, monasteries and castles (Bridge, 2012). Discarding sites, such as London, where imported timber is a known issue, removes some potential systematic problems, but clearly the residual chronologies will contain exceptions.…”

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“…have been successful in indicating the source growth areas of timbers used in shipwrecks, art-historical materials and in buildings where timber may have been transported long distances by river (e.g. Daly, 2007;Haneca et al, 2009;Bridge, 2012). The current methods of comparing ring-width chronologies are acknowledged as being rather crude, but capable of distinguishing between growth areas hundreds of kilometres apart.…”

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Mining the British Isles oak tree-ring data set. Part A: Rationale, data, software, and proof of concept

Fowler

Bridge

2015

Dendrochronologia

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a b s t r a c tFrom stuttering early beginnings, archaeological oak dendrochronology in the British Isles developed rapidly in the latter decades of the 20th century, to the present situation where dozens of new crossdated site chronologies are produced each year. Although unevenly spread in both space and time, the available data set is now so large (several thousand sites) that it has the potential to be mined for applications that were not envisaged when the data were originally collected. Here we compile available data into an oak database of archaeological and modern (living) sites, develop a software tool to visualise spatial patterns and correlations, and explore six potential data-mining applications (crossdating methodology, crossdating error detection, regional chronologies, pointer years, provenancing, past climate reconstruction). Results indicate variable data-mining potential, but with viable prospects in each case.

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“…Dendroprovenancing was successfully applied to identify the origin of foundation piles under historical buildings in the Netherlands (Sass‐Klaassen, Vernimmen, & Baittinger, ) or wood from shipwrecks (Bridge, ; Domínguez‐Delmás, Nayling, Ważny, Loureiro, & Lavier, ), and to unravel the Baltic wood trade (Ważny, ). Dendroprovenancing of wood from shipwrecks is considered as the most challenging, since boats and ships may be found far away from the construction place (Bridge, ), which is not necessarily related to the timber source areas and, single shipwrecks may contain wood from different origins (Haneca, Čufar, & Beeckman, ).…”

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Multi‐variable approach pinpoints origin of oak wood with higher precision

Akhmetzyanov

Buras

Sass‐Klaassen

et al. 2019

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim Spatial variations of environmental conditions translate into biogeographical patterns of tree growth. This fact is used to identify the origin of timber by means of dendroprovenancing. Yet, dendroprovenancing attempts are commonly only based on ring‐width measurements, and largely neglect additional tree–ring variables. We explore the potential of using wood anatomy as a dendroprovenancing tool, and investigate whether it increases the precision of identifying the origin of oak wood. Since different tree–ring variables hold different information on environmental conditions prevailing at specific times of the growing season—which vary between source regions—we hypothesize that their inclusion allows more precise dendroprovenancing. Location Europe, Spain. Taxon Quercus robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl., Quercus faginea Lam., Quercus pyrenaica Willd. Methods We sampled four oak species across Northern Spain, i.e. from the Basque country and Cantabria and—in the Basque country—from low to high elevation (topographic/latitudinal gradient). We measured multiple tree–ring variables to (a) extract complementary variables; (b) present statistical relations among them; (c) analyse region‐specific variation in their patterns based on time–series of individual trees; and (d) determine underlying climate–growth relationships. Leave‐one‐out analysis was used to test whether a combination of selected variables allowed dendroprovenancing of a randomly selected tree within the area. Results A combination of latewood width (LW) and earlywood vessel size was used to pinpoint the origin of oak wood with higher precision than ring width or LW only. Variation in LW pinpointed the wood to east and west areas, whereas variation in vessels assigned wood to locations along a latitudinal/topographic gradient. The climatic triggers behind these gradients are respectively an east–west gradient in June–July temperature and a north–south gradient in winter/spring temperatures. The leave‐one‐out analyses supported the robustness of these results. Main conclusions Integration of multiple wood–xylem anatomical variables analysed with multivariate techniques leads to higher precision in the dendroprovenancing of ring‐porous oak species.

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Locating the origins of wood resources: a review of dendroprovenancing

Cited by 80 publications

References 28 publications

Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon

Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon

Mining the British Isles oak tree-ring data set. Part A: Rationale, data, software, and proof of concept

Multi‐variable approach pinpoints origin of oak wood with higher precision

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