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Fritts
[Description from Elsevier website] Tree Rings and Climate deals with the principles of dendrochronology, with emphasis on tree-ring studies involving climate-related problems. This book looks at the spatial and temporal variations in tree-ring…
Type: Document
Year: 1976
Liacos
Greece, to those who know it only from archeological books and its ancient architecture, is associated with rocks, and bare mountains of white fine-granular marble, decorated by fine-sculptured temples, all built of white marble. Probably, the small…
Type: Document
Year: 1974
Wilhelm
From the Conclusions ... 'Prior to becoming a national park, Shenandoah had gone through periods of indiscriminate logging, hunting, livestock grazing, and burning. Then the area entered the National Park System and shifted abruptly to a regime of…
Type: Document
Year: 1973
Ferguson
[From first paragraph] Dendrochronology may be defined as the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. The concepts and techniques of the science, as presented here, reflect the work and practice of the Laboratory of Tree…
Type: Document
Year: 1970
Rostlund
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Type: Document
Year: 1960
Stewart
From the text...'The unrestricted burning of vegetation appears to be a universal culture trait among historic primitive peoples and therefore was probably employed by our remote ancestors. Archeology indicates that extensive areas of the Old and…
Type: Document
Year: 1956
Douglass
The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the precision of the dating of individual rings in long tree-ring chronologies by the use of methods and procedures classed under the name 'dendrochronology'. The operations are based on climatic impressions…
Type: Document
Year: 1946
Reiser, Huckaby
This guide was developed to help identify Culturally Peeled Trees. Culturally Peeled Trees are a specific type of Culturally Modified Tree. The term is used to describe the mostly pre-reservation practice by aboriginal or native people of 'peeling…
Type: Document