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| HAAR0147-1 | Dendrochronology and historical wood technology
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Patrick Hoffsummer |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| The recent progress in the study of historical wood suggest a new approach about the use of this material in cultural heritage (architecture, boats, furniture, art) . This material with diffferent forms and qualities can be observed by archeological and scientifical approachs in old buildings, or archaeological excavations, and in the laboratories: building archaeology, tool traces (traceology), types of joints and tructures, relativ chronology, dendrochronology. This method is the study of annual tree rings in relation with the climate. One application of this is the dendrodatation of felling date, sometimes with the precision of the year and the season. Because the connection between tree ring and climate, other searchers are also concerned by this methodology: foresters, climatologists, specialists of envirronement. Theory and pratice are mixed in this teaching. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| This teaching will offer a overview of wood as basic material in culturel heritage and the possibilities of its analyse by archaeological and scientific ways, espacially with the use of dendrochronology, with their advantages and limits. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Nothing |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Visits on sites and monuments; laboratory activities |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The practical organisation will be discuss with the students, at the begenning of the academic year. See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Informations and bibliography will be give to the students during the academic year
Historiographie, méthodologie
Cook E.R. et Kairiukstis L.A., Methods of Dendrochronology, Applications in the Environmental Sciences, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, Londres, 1990.
Douglass Andrew E., 1921, Dating our Prehistoric Ruins, Natural History, 21.1, p. 27-30.
Kaennel Michèle et Schweingruber Fritz-Hans, Multilingual Glossary of Dendrochronology, Terms and Definitions in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian, Paul Haupt, Berne, Vienne, Stuttgart, 1995.
munaut André-Valentin, Les cernes de croissance des arbres, la dendrochronologie, coll. Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 53, Turnhout, 1998.
Schweingruber Fritz H., Tree Rings, Reidel Publ. Company, Boston, 1988.
Webb George-Ernest, Tree-rings and Telescopes, the Scientific Career of A.E. Douglass, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1983.
Dendrologie, Xylologie
Corbineau Paul et Flandin Jean-Michel, Identification des bois, esthétique et singularités, Wood indentification, aesthetics and specific characteristics, éditions Vial, Turin, 2009. ISBN 978-2-85101-136-7. Paix-Dieu.
Bruce Hoadley R., Understanding Wood, a craftsman's guide to wood technology, The Taunton Press, Newtown, 2000. Paix-Dieu. PH.
Dendrodatation
Baillie Mickael G L, A slice through time, dendrochronology and precision dating, B.T. Batsford, Londres, 1995.
Baillie Mickael G L, Tree-Ring Dating and Archaeology, éd. Croom Helm, Londres et Canberra, 1982.
Fraiture Pascale (éd.), Tree Rings, Art, Archaeology,Proceedings of a conference 10-12 february 2010 coll. Scientia Artis 7, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels, 2011.
Fritts Harold C., Tree Rings and Climate, Academic Press, London, New York, San Francisco, 1976.
Hoffsummer Patrick, La dendrochronologie de l'architecture, dans Noël René, Paquay Isabelle et Sosson Jean-Pierre (dir.), Au-delà de l'écrit: les hommes et leurs vécus matériels au Moyen Âge à la lumière des sciences et des techniques, nouvelles perspectives, Brepols, Turnhout, 2003, p. 295-337.
Hollstein Ernst, Mitteleuropäische Eichenchronologie. Trierer dendrochronologische Forschungen zur Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, Mainz am Rhein, Verlag Ph. Von Zabern, Trier Grabunden und Forschungen, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 11, Trèves, 1980.
Lambert Georges-Noël et Maurice Brigitte, Les Veines du temps. Lectures de bois en Bourgogne, Autun, Musée Rolin, 1992.
Lambert Georges-Noël, La dendrochronologie, mémoire de l'arbre, dans La datation en laboratoire, Errance, Paris, 1998, p. 13-69.
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Oral examination et exercices during the year |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Patrick HOFFSUMMER
European center for archaeometry
Allée du 6 août 17 (Bât. B5)
4000 Liège (Sart Tilman)
04 366 54 74
phoffsummer@ulg.ac.be |
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