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| HAAR0093-1 | Dendrochronology | |||||
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| Duration : | 30h Th | |||||
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| Holder(s) : | Patrick Hoffsummer | |||||
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| Course contents : | Dendrochronology is the study of the annual tree rings in relation with the climate evolution. One application of this is the dendrodatation of felling date, sometimes with the precision of the year and the season. So, dendrodation is a part of archaeometry very often used by archaeologists and historians of art because many objects or a part of buildings are made of wood. Because the connection between tree ring and climate, other searchers are also concerned by this methodology: foresters, climatologists, specialists of envirronement. After a historic of this relatively young science and a introduction to the tree biology, we will give a overview of the technical analysis and the applications. | |||||
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| Course objective : | The goal is to obtain a good appreciation of the advantages - but also the limits - of the dendrochronology in archaeology and history of art. | |||||
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| Prerequisites : | Nothing. | |||||
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| Workshops : | Laboratory exercices and visit on forest sites and/or in historical buildings. | |||||
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| Organization : | The pratical organisation will be discuss with the students, at the begenning of the academic year. | |||||
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| Written notes : | Baillie M.G.L., 1982. Tree-Ring Dating and Archaeology, London, Croom Helm, 274 p. Fritts Harold C., 1976, Tree Rings and Climate, Academic Press, London, New York, San Francisco, p. 567. Hoffsummer P., 1991. La dendrochronologie au service de la datation des monuments. In: Bulletin de la Fondation Julien et Laure Vanhove-Vonneche, n°3, p. 41-48. Hollstein Ernst, 1980, Mitteleuropäische Eichenchronologie, Trierer dendrochronologische Forschungen zur Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, Mainz, coll. « Trierer Grabungen und Forschungen, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier », 11, Philipp von Zabern. Lambert (Georges-Noël), 1998, « La dendrochronologie, mémoire de l'arbre », in La datation en laboratoire, Paris, Ed. Errance, p. 13-69. Munaut A.-V., 1988. Les cernes de croissance des arbres (la dendrochronologie), Turnhout, (Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 53), 51 p. Schweingruber F.-H., 1988, Tree Rings, Basics and Applications of Dendrochronology, Dordrecht, Boston, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 276 p. | |||||
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| Assessment : | Oral examination and during the exercices in laboratory. | |||||
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| Contacts : | Patrick HOFFSUMMER Département des Sciences historiques Service d'archéologie médiévale et de dendrochronologie quai Roosevelt, 1b Tél. 04 366 54 74 E-mail phoffsummer@ulg.ac.be | |||||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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