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For decades, scientists have relied on tree rings to estimate how long trees can live. But new research suggests that this widely used method may have been underestimating the lifespan of many ...

A new tree-ring study solves the mystery of where the famed instrument-maker Anton Stradivari sourced timber for his violins ...

Archaeological tree-ring dating: origins and principles -- Lord of the rings: A.E. Douglass and the development of archaeological tree dating, 1914-1929 -- Tree-ring dating at the University of ...

A historic Hunter Creek Valley building was excavated and tree-ring dated on Friday, Sept. 20. The building, which experts think housed farm animals, is made of wood that is around two centuries old, ...

A photo of a shipwreck, buried in silt for centuries and containing cargo in unbroken ceramic vessels, drew the only gasps at a recent seminar on the archaeology of the Mediterranean at the University ...

A thousand-year-old mystery at L’Anse aux Meadows is solved! Scientists precisely dated Viking activity to 1021 AD using ancient tree rings and a massive solar storm. This breakthrough offers the only ...