2500 years from dendrochronology back to ancient French human biotopes. Trees studied: low altitude oaks (original) (raw)

2005, ATR (Association for Tree Ring Research) :TRACE (Tree Ring, Climate, Archaeology and Environment). Conference, Fribourg, 21-23 Apr. 2005.

We propose an experimental method, using curvilinear regressions, called corridor method, for dating and building a global useful signal based on oak ring widths in northern and eastern France. The resulting signal seems to be more useful than others to progress in the domains of ancient climate and ancient environments: dendrodating, dendroclimatology, dendroecology and, of course, human history (Lambert, 2002, Houbrechts and Lambert, 2004, Durost, 2005). However, we were lead to adapt or reconsider several basic mathematical functions, meteorological indexes or common dendrochronological definitions. [...]