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A Brief Bibliography

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Tree rings - 100 year old Beech Tree

Tree rings - 100 year old Beech Tree

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Adams, E. C. and Charla Hedberg 2002 Driftwood use at Homol'ovi and implications for interpreting the archaeological record. Kiva 67(2):363-384.

Blanton, Dennis B. 2000 Drought as a Factor in The Jamestown Colony, 1607-1612. Historical Archaeology 34(4):74-81.

Blassing, T. J. and D. Duvick 1984 Reconstruction of precipitation history in the North American Corn Belt using tree rings. Nature 307:143-145.

Caldwell, Warren W. and Lynn M. Snyder 1983 Dendochronology in Plains prehistory: An assessment. Plains Anthropologist 28(99):30-44.

Dykeman, Douglas D., Ronald H. Towner, and James K. Feathers 2002 Correspondence in Tree-Ring Dating and Thermoluminescence Dating: A Protohistoric Navajo Pilot Study. American Antiquity 67(1):145-165.

Eckstein, Dieter 2007 Human time in tree rings. Dendrochronologia 24:53–60.

Grabner, Michael, et al. 2007 Bronze age dating of timber from the salt-mine at Hallstatt, Austria. Dendrochronologia 24:61–68.

Meko, D. M. and T. J. Blassing 1985 Periodicity in tree rings from the Corn Belt. Science 229:381-384.

Nash, Stephen E. 1997 A cutting-date estimation technique for ponderosa pine and douglas fir wood specimens. American Antiquity 62(2):260-272.

Neuman, Robert W. 1962 A Historical Note on Tree Ring Dating. Plains Anthropologist 7(17):188-189.

Renfrew, Colin 1971 Carbon 14 and the prehistory of Europe. Scientific American 255-263.

Street, David J. 2001 How fast is a kiva? The dendroarchaeology of Long House, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Kiva 67(2):137-165.

Therrell, Matthew D. 2000 The historic and paleoclimatic significance of log buildings in southcentral Texas. Historical Archaeology 34(2):25-37.

Topham, John and Derek McCormick 2000 FOCUS: A dendrochronological investigation of stringed instruments of the Cremonese school (166601757) including "The Messiah" violin attributed to Antonio Stradivari. Journal of Archaeological Science 27:183-192.

Towner, Ronald H. 2002 Archeological dendrochronology in the southwestern United States. Evolutionary Archaeology 1168-84.

Watson, Patty J. 1990 Trend and tradition in Southeastern Archaeology. Southeastern Archaeology 9:43-54.

Weakly, Harry E. 1962 Dendrochronology and Archeology in Nebraska. Plains Anthropologist 7(16):138-146.

Weakly, Ward F. 1971 Tree Ring Dating and Archaeology in South Dakota. Memoir 8. Plains Anthropologist 16(54):1-51.

Will, George F. 1948 Additional Notes on Dendrochronology in the Dakotas. Plains Anthropologist 1(4):68-70.

Windes, Thomas C. and Dabney Ford 1996 The Chaco Wood Project: The chronometric reappraisal of Pueblo Bonito. American Antiquity 61(2):295-310.

Woodbury, Richard B. 1960 Growth Rings in Desert Shrubs. Plains Anthropologist 5(9):31.

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