Dating buildings and landscapes with tree-ring analysis : an introduction with case studies / Darrin L. Rubino and Christopher Baas
- Author:
- Rubino, Darrin L.
- Published:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2019
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Baas, Christopher
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.An overview: can you date my building? -- 1.2.1.Buildings and landscapes -- 1.2.2.Understanding how trees grow -- 1.2.3.Basics of tree-ring science -- 1.2.4.Obtaining a construction date -- 1.2.5.Reporting findings -- 1.3.Who we are -- 1.4.Our goals -- 1.5.Literature cited -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Cultural landscape studies -- 2.3.Defining cultural landscapes and the cultural hearth theoretical framework -- 2.4.Discourse materialized: a theoretical framework -- 2.5.Terms and definitions -- 2.6.Conclusion -- 2.7.Literature cited -- 3.1.Introduction to botany -- 3.2.Anatomy and morphology of a woody stem -- 3.3.Wood words -- 3.3.1.Hardwoods and softwoods -- 3.3.2.Earlywood and latewood -- 3.3.3.Heartwood and sapwood -- 3.4.Wood identification -- 3.5.Conclusion -- 3.6.Literature cited -- 4.1.Introduction to dendrochronology -- 4.2.Variability in tree-ring width -- 4.3.Crossdating -- 4.4.Creating reference chronologies -- 4.5.Conclusion -- 4.6.Literature cited -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Field methods -- 5.2.1.Obtaining tree-ring samples -- 5.2.2.Timber type determination -- 5.3.Woodshop methods -- 5.4.Laboratory procedures -- 5.4.1.Microscopic timber type determination -- 5.4.2.Assigning years and crossdating -- 5.4.2.1.Crossdating using skeleton plots -- 5.4.2.2.Crossdating with measured tree rings -- 5.5.Conclusion -- 5.6.Literature cited -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Sanborn maps -- 6.3.Atlases, plat maps, and landscape illustrations -- 6.4.Property deeds and titles -- 6.5.General Land Office survey (GLO) -- 6.6.Population census -- 6.7.Agricultural census -- 6.8.Newspapers -- 6.9.Probate records: wills and inventories -- 6.10.Letters, diaries, and journals -- 6.11.Oral histories -- 6.12.Directories -- 6.13.Photographic images -- 6.14.Historic aerial photographs -- 6.15.Secondary sources -- 6.16.Conclusion -- 6.17.Literature cited -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Parts of a tree-ring analysis report -- 7.3.Data tables -- 7.3.1.Tree-ring sample table construction -- 7.3.2.Outer rings and assigning construction dates -- 7.3.3.Timbers without dates -- 7.3.4.Chronology summary table construction -- 7.4.Chronology and sample depth reporting -- 7.5.Field drawings -- 7.5.1.Field documentation of barns -- 7.5.2.Field documentation of houses, churches, and commercial buildings -- 7.6.Equipment for field documentation -- 7.7.Field drawings and photographs -- 7.8.Conclusion -- 7.9.Literature cited -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Tree-ring analysis of outdoor and house museums: opportunities and challenges -- 8.3.Delphi Canal Park: case study of an open air museum -- 8.3.1.Fouts House -- 8.3.2.Loom House -- 8.3.3.Kuns House -- 8.3.4.Speece Shelter -- 8.3.5.Bowen House -- 8.3.6.Reed and Mariah Case House -- 8.3.7.Summary of the tree-ring analysis of Delphi Canal Park -- 8.4.John Hay Center -- 8.4.1.John Hay House addition -- 8.4.2.Haganman House -- 8.5.Jeremiah Sullivan House -- 8.6.Grayson House -- 8.7.Frederick and Sophia Wyneken House -- 8.8.Grouseland -- 8.9.Conclusion -- 8.10.Literature cited -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.1.1.Dendrochronology and interpreting historic sites -- 9.2.Using dendrochronology to identify historic slave dwellings -- 9.2.1.The Sanders House and the Clay Hill Cabin -- 9.3.The George DeBaptiste House -- 9.4.Eleutherian College -- 9.4.1.The classroom and chapel building -- 9.4.2.Caretaker's House -- 9.4.3.The Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House -- 9.4.4.Tree-ring analysis of Eleutherian College -- 9.5.Musee de Venoge -- 9.6.Tree-ring analysis of the George Ash House -- 9.7.Conclusion -- 9.8.Literature cited -- 10.1.Introduction -- 10.2.The fort in the doctor's house -- 10.3.Fort Wayne archival and secondary sources -- 10.4.The archaeology of North American forts -- 10.5.Unique sources for documenting Fort Wayne -- 10.6.Dendrochronology results -- 10.7.Huxford House conclusions -- 10.8.Dendrochronological analysis of a 19th-century farmstead: introduction -- 10.9.Archival and scholarly sources for the Glenn Farmstead -- 10.10.Farmstead structures -- 10.10.1.Apple House -- 10.10.2.Robert Glenn House -- 10.10.3.English barn -- 10.10.4.Woodshed -- 10.10.5.Corncrib -- 10.10.6.Sheep barn -- 10.11.Glenn Farmstead conclusions -- 10.12.Literature cited -- 11.1.Introduction -- 11.2.Harmonist housing -- 11.3.Archival and scholarly sources for New Harmony buildings -- 11.4.Community House No. 2 -- 11.4.1.Tree-ring analysis of Community House No. 2 -- 11.4.2.Dendrochronology results for Community House No. 2 -- 11.5.Community House No. 4/Thrall's Opera House -- 11.5.1.Community House No. 4/Thralls Opera House archival and scholarly sources -- 11.5.2.Community House No. 4/Thralls Opera House dendrochronology results -- 11.6.Mattias Scholle House -- 11.6.1.Archival and scholarly sources for the Scholle House -- 11.6.2.Dendrochronology results for the Scholle House -- 11.7.Fauntleroy House -- 11.7.1.Archival and scholarly sources for the Fauntleroy House -- 11.7.2.Dendrochronology results for the Fauntleroy House -- 11.8.Summary of the tree-ring analysis of Harmonist buildings -- 11.9.Conclusion -- 11.10.Literature cited -- 12.1.Early commercial production and shipping of hay -- 12.2.Defining, interpreting, and preserving a regional vernacular barn type -- 12.3.Archival sources and scholarship of Mormon beater hay press barns -- 12.4.Testing theories for an evolution in press barn forms -- 12.4.1.Results of the tree-ring analysis of hay press barns -- 12.5.Tree-ring analysis of the Justi and Mary Thiebaud Farmstead -- 12.5.1.Thiebaud House and Corncrib -- 12.5.2.Thiebaud Farmstead summary -- 12.6.Detecting recycled timbers in new press barns -- 12.6.1.Posey Township Hay Press Barn -- 12.6.2.Anderson Hay Barn -- 12.7.Using dendrochronology to establish a vernacular precedent for beater hay press barns -- 12.8.Conclusion -- 12.9.Literature cited -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.Using tree rings to make sense of timber selection -- 13.2.1.Why use a specific timber type? -- 13.2.2.Are there biases in timber selection? -- 13.2.3.What species of trees are available for construction? -- 13.2.4.Methods for identifying timber bias -- 13.2.5.Does species availability change over time? -- 13.2.6.Summary of timber type selection -- 13.3.Determining timber origin: dendroprovenancing -- 13.3.1.Determining timbers' geographic source -- 13.3.2.Sullivan House -- 13.3.3.Thiebaud Hay Press Barn -- 13.3.4.Braytown North Hay Press Barn -- 13.3.5.White pine in the mid-Ohio River Valley -- 13.4.Conclusion -- 13.5.Literature cited -- 14.1.Introduction -- 14.2.Historical documentation -- 14.3.Tree-ring samples -- 14.4.Crossdating and date assignment -- 14.5.Conclusion: can you date my building? -- 14.6.Literature cited.
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- ISBN:
- 9781138503953 hardcover
1138503959 hardcover
9781138503960 paperback
1138503967 paperback - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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