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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧱 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬? Our new open-access paper uses dendrochronologically dated buildings in #Bruges and #Damme to build a regional brick-size chronology for medieval Flanders. 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘺: doi.org/10.1080/0305... #dendrochronology #BuildingArchaeology

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Chronologies in clay: Brick sizes as a regional dating method in medieval flanders

This study develops a reference chronology of brick sizes for medieval Bruges (Belgium) using systematically measured bricks from well-dated buildings spanning the early thirteenth to late sixteent...

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Last chance to submit your paper to our 'Dendrochronology and the Human Past' Special Issue, deadline 31 December 2025. 9 articles fully published, 5 under review. Thank you so much, dear authors, for the huge interest, and for sharing your top-class research. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Pukienė et al., Non-destructive dendrochronology of a human-sized wooden sculpture of Saint Louis using X-ray computed tomography and micro-imaging.
Boswijk et al., Improving chronology for Aotearoa New Zealand: New research in tree-ring derived radiocarbon and stable isotope time series.
Szabó et al., Local timber dominated pre-industrial construction: Insights from archival and dendrochronological data.
Yermokhin et al., First multispecies tree-ring chronologies from the 6th millennium BCE in Southeastern Europe.
Neubauer et al., The underground forest: Tracing forest history in the Erzgebirge through the wood finds from the medieval silver mines of Dippoldiswalde.
Davies et al., ISODATE – Software for stable isotope dendrochronology.
Yermokhin & Zunde, An 831-year pine tree-ring chronology from Northern Belarus reveals historical timber trade routes to the Baltic and beyond.
Gmińska-Nowak et al., Cistercian heritage in Pelplin, Poland. Dendrochronological dating of the covers of medieval codices.
Läänelaid et al., Investigating the age of the door of the King’s Chapel in Tallinn Dome.

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📢 Abstract submission is open for the conference: 🌲From Forest to Heritage III 🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria 🚨 Submission deadline: 31 January 2026 ➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at/call-for-pro... #ForestScience #ForestResearch #ForestHistory #dendrochronology #ForestEducation

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Just a little reminder. Our Special Issue 'Dendrochronology and Knowledge of the Human Past'. Several papers online, and more being reviewed. But we decided to extend the paper submission deadline to the end of the year. Looking forward to your paper (detail from Ringsaker, photo: Aoife Daly).

Close-up view of one of the sculpture components from an altarpiece at Ringsaker Church, Norway. The carved surface also has a guild stamp, in the form of a hand, known from 17th century works from Antwerp.

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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🌳 fellingdater v1.2.0 expands beyond felling date estimation with new trs_* functions, for: 🔬 Crossdating 📈 Visualizations of crossdating results 🧪 Synthetic data generation 🍟New Brussels 🇧🇪 sapwood model Explore📦 docs.ropensci.org/fellingdater/ #dendrochronology #rstats #archaeology #OpenScience

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Tree-ring dating and estimating felling dates of historical timbers

fellingdater provides a comprehensive suite of functions for dendrochronological and dendroarchaeological analysis, covering a workflow from tree-ring **data processing** and **crossdating**, up to th...

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Hung Nguyen @ntthung.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Can you hear the dendrochronologists in their natural habitat? 🧪 #dendro

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🌲🌳Registration open for the 35th European Dendroecological Fieldweek in September in Son, Spain! 🌲🌳It is jointly organized by the Dendrolabs of the WSL and the University of Barcelona @ub.edu. More information: www.wsl.ch/de/veranstal... #dendrology #dendroecology #treerings

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35th European Dendroecological Fieldweek

We are pleased to announce the 35th European Dendroecological Fieldweek, will take place from August 29 to September 5 2025. This event will be held in the town of Son (Spain) at the heart of the Cata...

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We have dubbed the special issue dendroarchaeologia. Don't know if it will catch on as a tag, maybe it's too long 😵‍💫 #dendroarchaeologia

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Dendroarchaeology friends! Just a reminder of our Dendrochronologia special issue - Dendrochronology and Knowledge of the Human Past. The first paper is already through the review process, out soon. Submit your paper through this link: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... 🌳💍🏺

Photo of an oak hull plank from a Medieval boat. Lines incised on its surface form an image of an anchor.

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Elisabet Martínez-Sancho @elimartinezs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I am very happy to announce that the Dendrolabs of @wslresearch.bsky.social and @biologiaub.bsky.social will be co-organizing the 35th European Dendroecological Fieldweek in the Pyrenees! It's the perfect opportunity to learn about dendrochronology and have fun in a beautiful landscape! Details 👇

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35th European Dendroecological Fieldweek

We are pleased to announce the 35th European Dendroecological Fieldweek, taking place from August 29 to September 5. This event will be held in the town of Son (Spain) at the heart of the Catalan Pyre...

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Jan Trachet @jtrachet.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

📣 Call for Papers 📣 On #IKUWA8, the International Congress for Underwater #Archaeology (Ostend, October 13-17), we organise the session 'Turn the Tide – Methods to unmud intertidal cultural heritage' 📎 Find our session here: www.vliz.be/ikuwa8/en/se... 📩 And submit your abstract before March 15

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Session F - Intertidal Archaeology

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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

👋 At #𝐈𝐊𝐔𝐖𝐀𝟖 (Ostend, 13-17/10/2025) session G1 "𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠", is focussed on the characterisation, identification and provenancing of mosses , plant fibers, animal hair & tar associated with ̲𝚊̲̲𝚛̲̲𝚌̲̲𝚑̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚎̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚕̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚐̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚌̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚕̲ ̲𝚜̲̲𝚑̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚙̲ ̲𝚝̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚖̲̲𝚋̲̲𝚎̲̲𝚛̲̲𝚜̲.⁣ ⁣ 📆 Abstracts welcome until March 15: www.vliz.be/ikuwa8/en/se...

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Session G - Ships & Navigation

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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

🪵 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 🌳 ... is a 𝚂̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚌̲𝚒̲𝚊̲𝚕̲ ̲𝙸̲𝚜̲𝚜̲𝚞̲𝚎̲ of the journal 𝘋𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘢, dedicated to dendro-archaeological studies. We’re now accepting submissions: 🗓️ deadline: 15 September 2025 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... 🙋‍♂️share and repost #dendrochronology

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Read the latest articles of Dendrochronologia at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

XXL transport containers: Two huge #Roman wooden barrels in an outstanding state of preservation, found in Xanten. Both had a capacity of approx. 1250 l and were used to transport #wine from the Mediterranean region to the Lower Rhine. They were recycled for lining wells.1/2 📷me 🏺 #archaeology

The photograph, taken within a museum setting, depicts two remarkably well-preserved Roman barrels of substantial size. They appear largely complete, with the exception of their upper sections.

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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🚨Our new paper marks the first-ever use of oxygen isotope dendrochronology in Belgium! 🌳 Secure cross-dating 15th C timbers with U.K. & French isotope chronologies 🌳Accurate dating outside the chronologies’ core areas 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.de... #Dendrochronology #IsotopeAnalysis #CulturalHeritage

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Maxime Poulain @mpoulain.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🌍🐛 An unexpected traveler: An African parasite was discovered in a medieval cesspit in Bruges! This unique find offers insights into the spread of infectious diseases through migration and trade. Read on for details. 🧵 🏺🧪

Schistosoma mansoni egg. Image credit: Marissa Ledger.

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

So happy to have helped create the new ScARF Dendro Research Framework for Scotland. True team effort. We’re hoping it will underpin greater uptake and support for #dendrochronology in #archaeology and built #heritage in #Scotland. #ScotDendro

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Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com · 23/10/2024

Archaeologists have excavated an ‘exceptionally rare’ wooden spade dating back approximately 3,500 years, possibly used to cut peat during the summer months 🏺 AncientBlueSky www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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Archaeologists reveal how ‘exceptionally rare’ Bronze Age tool was so well preserved

The rare Bronze Age spade was discovered during a coastal habitat project in Poole Harbour

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Johannes Edvardsson @dendrolund.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

New article in which 294 panel paintings by J Jordaens and A van Dyck have been analysed to investigate the origin and date of the wood used. Enjoy! #fineart #dendrochronology nature.com/articles/s41598-024-68641-y

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Timber trade in 17th-century Europe: different wood sources for artworks of Flemish painters - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Timber trade in 17th-century Europe: different wood sources for artworks of Flemish painters

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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

And for those attending the "From Forests to Heritage" conference in Helsinki next week, I'll be there promoting the 'fellingdater' package! Learn more about this fantastic event here: www.aalto.fi/en/events/fr... #FromForestsToHeritage

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From Forests to Heritage 2024 Conference | Aalto University

International conference dedicated to the processing of wood in the past for production of architecture, furniture, works of art, ships and other timber structures.

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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

A new toolkit for #dendro! Working with historical 🌳tree-💍ring data? 👉 'fellingdater' is a new #R-package designed to assist dendrochronologists estimate and combine felling dates, derived from dated tree-ring series. docs.ropensci.org/fellingdater/ #rstats #rOpenSci #tree-ring-science

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Estimate, report and combine felling dates of historical tree-ring series

fellingdater is an R package that aims to facilitate the analysis and interpretation of tree-ring data from wooden cultural heritage objects and structures. The package standardizes the process of com...

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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

@dendro-aoife.bsky.social in her latest paper promotes extensive sampling of timbers and wood remains on archaeological sites, hoping this ´will become a more normal practice in archaeology, in both the research and commercial spheres´ 👏 #dendrochronology 🌳💍

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Joe Buck (In Nature) @joebuckinnature.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Post oak (Quercus stellata) #TreeRings can be both easy and difficult to work with! Both photos are from the same tree core. Often you have to skip a section and work from one with easier to identify marker years. #Dendro #Dendrochronology 🌳💍💚

Microscope view of post oak vessels with tyloses filling up most cells. The vertical rows of tree-rings are extremely close together and difficult to distinguish from one another.

Microscope view of post oak vessels with tyloses filling up most cells. The vertical rows of tree-rings are evenly spaced apart and easy to distinguish from one another.

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Kristof Haneca @kristofhaneca.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Our editorial (with @dendro-aoife.bsky.social and Marta Domínguez-Delmàs) and 19 papers presented @ From Forests to Heritage 2022 (forests2heritage.nl), are available #openaccess in the wonderfull Special Issue of the International Journal of Wood Culture. Have a look at 👉 brill.com/view/journal...

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