Have you ever examined timber floorboards and pondered why they look the way they do? Perhaps you admired the super-fine ...

Furthermore, the outermost heartwood ring of the Batavia hull planks that we sampled dates to 1616. When accounting for the missing sapwood (nine rings for Baltic oak), this means the trees were ...

Each ring, generally speaking, represents a single year’s growth, so a ring count can tell you how old the tree is (or, if it’s cut or fallen, how old it was when it died). The maple tree in ...

Rings on trees cam come in many forms, and dendrochronologists can go hunting in many places. Dendroarcheologist Pearce Paul Creasman of the University of Arizona studies historical ship timbers ...

RI HISTORY How tree rings help make a case that a 19th century shipwreck in Argentina could be a ship built in Warren, R.I. “I was really excited,” said researcher Ignacio Mundo.

How are tree rings made? A tree grows mostly during the springtime, when there is plenty of rain and sun to nourish it. It starts its spring growth by dividing a layer of cells known as the ...

The Tree Ring Lab’s dendroarcheological work helped to assign a date and provenance to a sunken ship discovered in 2010 some twenty feet below street level during the excavation for the World ...

Dendrochronology has been used to date timbers from the oldest surviving wood frame house in North America, the Fairbanks House in Dedham. Tree-ring dating showed that the house was built between ...

In creating actual chronologies, dendrochronologists make use of skeleton plots, which are graphical representations of tree-ring patterns. Next: Anatomy of a Tree Ring Growth and Sensitivity ...

A whaling ship known as the Dolphin left the shores of Warren, R.I., in 1858, never to return. Researchers say they found its wooden planks and timber pieces in Argentina.