{"pk":43238,"title":"Tree-Ring Dating: Principles and Origins","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The science of dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, provides archaeologists with the most accurate, precise, and therefore reliable dates available to guide their analyses. In the 1920s through 1940s, dendroarchaeology research on “tree-time”  forced archaeologists to radically revise their understanding of the prehistoric past. However, the history of archaeological tree-ring dating has until now been woefully inadequate. This chapter is excerpted from \nTime\n, \nTrees\n, and \nPrehistory\n: \nTree\n-\nRing Dating and the Development\n of \nNorth American Archaeology\n, \n1914-1950\n, a work that examines the impact of dendroarchaeologists’ work on the interpretation of North American prehistory and contextualizes archaeological practices from that period, demonstrating that archaeologists of this era were more analytically sophisticated than they are often given credit for, as they established the basis for revolutionary developments in archaeological theory and method for the next three decades.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"dendronchronology"},{"word":"tree ring dating, application of"},{"word":"US Southwestern archaeology"},{"word":"prehistoric trees"},{"word":"Transnational American Studies"}],"section":"Reprise","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kt9x91f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Stephen","middle_name":"Edward","last_name":"Nash","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2024-11-11T20:37:59Z","date_accepted":"2024-11-11T20:37:59Z","date_published":"2024-11-15T00:35:17Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/43238/galley/32212/download/"}]}