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TR EE R INGS
THE
OF
THE
WHEN
GROWING
SEASON STARTS,
LARGE CELLS
ARE ADDED TO
THE WOOD.
BY THE END OF
THE GROWTH
SEASON, CELL
PRODUCTION
HAS CEASED ALL
TOGETHER.
The thickness of
the trees may
vary according
to the trees age
and annual
climatic
variations
Tree-ring dating
Methods
Tree-ring dating
APPLICATION
DOUGLAS-DEAn EXPERIMENT
Pueblo Indians
built their
dwellings from
trees such as
the douglas fir
and pinon pine
that have
yielded ring
sequences
DOUGLAS-DEAn EXPERIMENT
A.E Douglass established that the
Betatakin,
cliff-dwelling
in
Arizona, dated around AD 1270
Jeffrey Dean returning to the
site in the 1960s, collected 292
tree-ring samples and used
them to document not only the
founding of the settlement but
also its expansion room by room
following its abandonment.