Dendroarchaeology in Europe

W Tegel, B Muigg, G Skiadaresis… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Human evolution was strongly related to environmental factors. Woodlands and their
products played a key role in the production of tools and weapons, and provided unique …

Radiogenic and “stable” strontium isotopes in provenance studies: a review and first results on archaeological wood from shipwrecks

F Hajj, A Poszwa, J Bouchez, F Guérold - Journal of Archaeological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Different approaches are used to study wood provenance, but most of them are based on
tracers in wood that are generally controlled by climatic factors. The strontium isotopic ratio …

[HTML][HTML] Seeing the forest for the trees: New approaches and challenges for dendroarchaeology in the 21st century

M Domínguez-Delmás - Dendrochronologia, 2020 - Elsevier
The application of tree-ring research to the study of cultural heritage has seen important
conceptual and methodological developments in the 21 st century. Following the …

Batavia shipwreck timbers reveal a key to Dutch success in 17th-century world trade

A Daly, M Domínguez-Delmás, W van Duivenvoorde - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Ocean-going ships were key to rising maritime economies of the Early Modern period, and
understanding how they were built is critical to grasp the challenges faced by shipwrights …

DNA of centuries-old timber can reveal its origin

L Akhmetzyanov, P Copini, U Sass-Klaassen… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Oak wood was highly appreciated and widely used for construction in past centuries. As
population sizes expanded in some regions of Europe, local forests were depleted of high …

[HTML][HTML] Potential of pyrolysis-GC–MS molecular fingerprint as a proxy of Modern Age Iberian shipwreck wood preservation

M Traoré, J Kaal, AM Cortizas - Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 2017 - Elsevier
Even though pyrolysis in combination with gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (Py-
GC–MS) is widely used for molecular characterization of wood, its abilities to determine the …

Waterlogged plant remains from the Roman healing spa of Aquae Flaviae (Chaves, Portugal): Utilitarian objects, timber, fruits and seeds

FC Vaz, M Martín-Seijo, S Carneiro, JP Tereso - Quaternary International, 2016 - Elsevier
More than 3500 individual pieces of waterlogged archaeobotanical remains were found in
the excavation of the Roman healing spa of Aquae Flaviae (Chaves, Portugal), carried out …

Long-distance oak supply in mid-2nd century AD revealed: the case of a Roman harbour (Voorburg-Arentsburg) in the Netherlands

M Domínguez-Delmás, M Driessen… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present dendrochronological evidence of long-distance oak timber supply for the
harbour of the Roman town Forum Hadriani, an important market place and point for military …

Multi‐variable approach pinpoints origin of oak wood with higher precision

L Akhmetzyanov, A Buras… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Spatial variations of environmental conditions translate into biogeographical patterns of
tree growth. This fact is used to identify the origin of timber by means of …

Dendro-provenancing of Arctic driftwood

L Hellmann, W Tegel, J Geyer, AV Kirdyanov… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Arctic driftwood may represent a cross-disciplinary proxy archive at the interface of marine
and terrestrial environments, which will likely gain in importance under future global climate …