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Dendrochronology, the science of assigning precise calendar dates to annual growth rings in trees, provided archaeologists with accurate dates at a time when North American archaeologists had no absolute dating techniques available to guide their analyses. TIME, TREES, AND PREHISTORY examines the growth, development, application, and interpretive implications of North American archaeological tree-ring dating from 1914 to 1950. Once established at the University of Arizona in 1929, archaeological tree-ring dating was practiced at several institutions, some of which saw themselves in direct competition with each other. By 1931 the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, and the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation in Globe, Arizona had all established their own tree-ring dating laboratories. By the end of that decade, intensive efforts were also underway to develop tree-ring dating in Alaska and the American Midwest. Through the analysis of the appropriate institutional archives, this volume chronicles the painstaking research, the trials and tribulations, and the successes and failures of the often famous personalities engaged in tree-

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Author

Stephen Edward Nash

Publisher

University of Utah Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874805895

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Ancient History