How to date an archaeologist: Dendrochronology - Teabreak 29

What this episode covers

It's time for the next installment of Tea-break Time Travel Training and this month we're showing the trees some love and looking into the details of dendrochronology! It seems like a simple concept but how much do you really know about tree rings? How do they form? How can we use them to date a site that's thousands of years old? And what does all this have to do with solar flares? Tune in to find out these answers and more! Transcripts * For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/teabreak/29 Links * Paper: Dendrochronology and Other Applications of Tree-ring Studies in Archaeology [https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=8046cb95f48fb52b32368e6f80f3bbfef0a0f20d] * Paper: Archaeological dendrochronology [https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=9aab8b4cd4532500eab47439fc76c2d84b58883f] * Dendrochronology paper from A. E. Douglass [https://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/~ellisqm/outgoing/dendroecology2014/readings/douglass1941.pdf] * Information on growth rings [https://extension.psu.edu/what-exactly-are-growth-rings] * Divergence Problem [https://www.dora.lib4ri.ch/wsl/islandora/object/wsl%3A10100/datastream/PDF/Kaczka-2009-TRACE._Tree_Rings_in_Archaeology%2C-%28published_version%29.pdf#page=214] * Future of Dendrochronology [https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=bc49f57155d6f6ea20d48eb1601b5acf95a186e9] Contact the Host * Email: [email protected] * https://www.thearchaeologiststeacup.com [https://www.thearchaeologiststeacup.com/] * insta: @the_archaeologists_teacup [https://www.instagram.com/the_archaeologists_teacup] * fb: /TheArchaeologistsTeacup [https://www.facebook.com/TheArchaeologistsTeacup] * twitter: @ArchaeoTeacup [https://www.twitter.com/ArchaeoTeacup] ArchPodNet * APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com [https://www.archpodnet.com/] * APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet * APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet * APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet * Tee Public Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724 Affiliates * Motion [https://www.archpodnet.com/motion]