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dendrochronology (en)  

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  • The measuring of annual tree-ring growth shown by most tree species in temperated regions. Regional chronologies are required to date any particular priece of wood, the longest of which, for Germany, works for the present to approximately 14000 years ago.

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  • http://thesaurus.historicengland.org.uk/thesaurus_term.asp?thes_no=560&term_no=142131

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https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/defcthesaurus/dendrochronology/4.2

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