New frontiers in tree-ring research

Pearl, Jessie K.; Keck, John R; Tintor, William Lazar; Siekacz, Liliana; Herrick, Hannah; Meko, M. D.; Pearson, Charlotte

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“…the presence of unique micro-climatic fluctuations at the source location that facilitates the development of a crossdated chronology, and ii.) an established network of chronologies that aid in exactly dating the timbers and determining the proximate provenance location (Domínguez-Delmás, 2020;Pearl et al, 2020). To name a few modern examples, dendroprovenancing has been used to successfully locate the source of wooden material found in shipwrecks on the Iberian Peninsula (Domínguez-Delmás et al, 2013) and of a buried shipwreck under the former World Trade Center building of New York City (Martin-Benito et al, 2014), as well as to understand timber procurement by Ancestral Puebloan people at Chaco Canyon (Guiterman et al, 2016), and to decipher the construction history of colonial era buildings in the northeastern U.S. (Krusic et al, 2004).…”

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Dendroarchaeological analysis of the Terminal Warehouse in New York City reveals a history of long-distance timber transport during the Gilded Age

Leland

Rao

Cook

et al. 2021

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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The Gilded Age of the late 19th century marked a period of rapid development and urbanization in New York City, U.S. To accommodate the high demand in wood products during that time, the timbers used for development of the city were increasingly sourced from locations distant from the northeastern United States. The Terminal Warehouse in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City was one of many large buildings erected during this period of city expansion, and is an important symbol of New York City commerce during the late 1800s. To determine the history and provenance of timbers used in the construction of the Terminal Warehouse, we used tree-ring analysis on longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) joists that were original to the building. The ring-width patterns on the joists crossdated well internally, suggesting a common origin of the sampled lumber. Further, our Terminal Warehouse tree-ring chronology (1512-1891 C.E.) correlated strongly with existing treering chronologies from western/central Georgia and eastern Alabama, indicating that the timbers were extracted from this region of the southeastern United States. The provenancing and dating of the Terminal Warehouse timbers underscores the important role that southern pines played in the expansion and development of New York City during the Gilded Age.

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Dendroarchaeological analysis of the Terminal Warehouse in New York City reveals a history of long-distance timber transport during the Gilded Age

Leland

Rao

Cook

et al. 2021

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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“…Dendrochronology offers sub-annual temporal resolution of land-level changes, and while such resolution still cannot discriminate between serial partial-margin ruptures separated by days or months from single full-margin earthquakes, confidence in the interpretation could improve significantly. Modern dendrochronology methods utilize changes in wood chemistry that may accompany sudden coseismic subsidence (Pearl et al, 2020a) and known spikes in the radiocarbon record as chronologic tie points (Pearl et al, 2020b, Pearson et al, 2020. Dendrochronology could also assist with dating landslide-dammed lakes (Struble et al, 2020).…”

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Toward an Integrative Geological and Geophysical View of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes

Walton

Staisch

Dura

et al. 2021

Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci.

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The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) is an exceptional geologic environment for recording evidence of land-level changes, tsunamis, and ground motion that reveals at least 19 great megathrust earthquakes over the past 10 kyr. Such earthquakes are among the most impactful natural hazards on Earth, transcend national boundaries, and can have global impact. Reducing the societal impacts of future events in the US Pacific Northwest and coastal British Columbia, Canada, requires improved scientific understanding of megathrust earthquake rupture, recurrence, and corresponding hazards. Despite substantial knowledge gained from decades of research, large uncertainties remain about the characteristics and frequencies of past CSZ earthquakes. In this review, we summarize geological, geophysical, and instrumental evidence relevant to understanding megathrust earthquakes along the CSZ and associated uncertainties. We discuss how the evidence constrains various models of great megathrust earthquake recurrence in Cascadia and identify potential paths forward for the earthquake science community. ▪ Despite outstanding geologic records of past megathrust events, large uncertainty of the magnitude and frequency of CSZ earthquakes remains. ▪ This review outlines current knowledge and promising future directions to address outstanding questions on CSZ rupture characteristics and recurrence. ▪ Integration of diverse data sets with attention to the geologic processes that create different records has potential to lead to major progress. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Volume 49 is May 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…The word dendrochronology as a term for tree-ring analyses was introduced in the early 1900s by the American astronomer Andrew Ellicot Douglass [8][9][10]. Following more recent improvements of the technique [11,12], dendrochronology has become a well-established method to date and analyse a wide range of wooden objects. Today results from dendrochronological analyses are important in several heritage science disciplines including cultural history [13][14][15], archaeology [16][17][18][19][20], fine arts [21][22][23][24], shipwrecks [25,26], timber trading [5,25,27] historical buildings and constructions [2,[28][29][30], and silviculture [31,32].…”

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How Cultural Heritage Studies Based on Dendrochronology Can Be Improved through Two-Way Communication

Edvardsson

Almevik

Lindblad

et al. 2021

Forests

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A significant part of our cultural heritage consists of wood. Research on historical wooden structures and artefacts thereby provides knowledge of people’s daily lives and the society in which they lived. Dendrochronology is a well-established dating method of wood that can also provide valuable knowledge about climate dynamics, environmental changes, silviculture, and cultural transformations. However, dendrochronology comes with some limitations that end users in cultural heritage sciences must be aware of, otherwise their surveys may not be ultimately performed. We have drawn attention to studies in which dendrochronological results have been misinterpreted, over-interpreted, or not fully utilized. On the other hand, a rigorous dendrochronological survey may not respond to the request of information in practice. To bridge this rigour-relevance gap, this article has considered and reviewed both the dendrochronology’s science-perspective and the practitioner’s and end user’s call for context appropriate studies. The material for this study consists of (i) interviews with researchers in dendrochronology and end users represented by cultural heritage researchers with focus on building conservation and building history in Sweden, and (ii) a review of dendrochronological reports and the literature where results from the reports have been interpreted. From these sources we can conclude that a continuous two-way communication between the dendrochronologists and end users often would have resulted in improved cultural heritage studies. The communication can take place in several steps. Firstly, the design of a sampling plan, which according to the current standard for sampling of cultural materials often is required, is an excellent common starting point for communication. Secondly, the survey reports could be developed with a more extensive general outline of the method and guidance in how to interpret the results. Thirdly, the potential contribution from dendrochronology is often underused, foreseeing historical information on local climate, silviculture, and choice of quality of the wooden resource, as the focus most often is the chronological dating. Finally, the interpretation of the results should consider all the available sources where dendrochronology is one stake for a conciliant conclusion.

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New frontiers in tree-ring research

Cited by 51 publications

References 331 publications

Dendroarchaeological analysis of the Terminal Warehouse in New York City reveals a history of long-distance timber transport during the Gilded Age

Dendroarchaeological analysis of the Terminal Warehouse in New York City reveals a history of long-distance timber transport during the Gilded Age

Toward an Integrative Geological and Geophysical View of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes

How Cultural Heritage Studies Based on Dendrochronology Can Be Improved through Two-Way Communication

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