Dating buildings and landscapes with tree-ring analysis : an introduction with case studies

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of figures = xi
• List of tables = xvi
• Acknowledgments = xix
• Conventions = xxi
• 1. Can you date my building : an introduction to tree-ring analysis for dating buildings and landscapes = 1
• 1.1 Introduction = 1
• 1.2 An overview : can you date my building? = 2
• 1.2.1 Buildings and landscapes = 2
• 1.2.2 Understanding how trees grow = 3
• 1.2.3 Basics of tree-ring science = 3
• 1.2.4 Obtaining a construction date = 3
• 1.2.5 Reporting findings = 8
• 1.3 Who we are = 10
• 1.4 Our goals = 10
• 1.5 Literature cited = 11
• 2 Understanding cultural landscapes and historic buildings : frameworks for interpreting and communicating tree-ring analysis = 13
• 2.1 Introduction = 13
• 2.2 Cultural landscape studies = 13
• 2.3 Defining cultural landscapes and the cultural hearth theoretical framework = 14
• 2.4 Discourse materialized : a theoretical framework = 15
• 2.5 Terms and definitions = 16
• 2.6 Conclusion = 25
• 2.7 Literature cited = 25
• 3. Botany for the dendrochronologist = 27
• 3.1 Introduction to botany = 27
• 3.2 Anatomy and morphology of a woody stem = 28
• 3.3 Wood words = 32
• 3.3.1 Hardwoods and softwoods = 32
• 3.3.2 Earlywood and latewood = 33
• 3.3.3 Heartwood and sapwood = 34
• 3.4 Wood identification = 35
• 3.5 Conclusion = 38
• 3.6 Literature cited = 38
• 4. Tree-ring basics for the historian, archaeologist, and preservationist = 40
• 4.1 Introduction to dendrochronology = 40
• 4.2 Variability in tree-ring width = 42
• 4.3 Crossdating = 44
• 4.4 Creating reference chronologies = 46
• 4.5 Conclusion = 49
• 4.6 Literature cited = 50
• 5. Tree-ring analysis methods for the field, vvoodshop, and lab = 51
• 5.1 Introduction = 51
• 5.2 Field methods = 51
• 5.2.1 Obtaining tree-ring samples = 54
• 5.2.2 Timber type determination = 62
• 5.3 Woodshop methods = 62
• 5.4 Laboratory procedures = 64
• 5.4.1 Microscopic timber type determination = 64
• 5.4.2 Assigning years and crossdating = 65
• 5.5 Conclusion = 74
• 5.6 Literature cited = 74
• 6. Archival and scholarly sources for interpreting tree-ring analysis = 76
• 6.1 Introduction = 76
• 6.2 Sanborn maps = 76
• 6.3 Atlases, plat maps, and landscape illustrations = 77
• 6.4 Property deeds and titles = 79
• 6.5 General Land Office survey (GLO) = 80
• 6.6 Population census = 81
• 6.7 Agricultural census = 82
• 6.8 Newspapers = 83
• 6.9 Probate records : wills and inventories = 83
• 6.10 Letters, diaries, and journals = 84
• 6.11 Oral histories = 84
• 6.12 Directories = 84
• 6.13 Photographic images = 85
• 6.14 Historic aerial photographs = 85
• 6.15 Secondary sources = 86
• 6.16 Conclusion = 87
• 6.17 Literature cited = 87
• 7. Reporting the results of tree-ring analysis = 90
• 7.1 Introduction = 90
• 7.2 Parts of a tree-ring analysis report = 90
• 7.3 Data tables = 91
• 7.3.1 Tree-ring sample table construction = 91
• 7.3.2 Outer rings and assigning construction dates = 93
• 7.3.3 Timbers without dates = 94
• 7.3.4 Chronology summary table construction = 95
• 7.4 Chronology and sample depth reporting = 96
• 7.5 Field drawings = 96
• 7.5.1 Field documentation of barns = 97
• 7.5.2 Field documentation of houses, churches, and commercial buildings = 97
• 7.6 Equipment for field documentation = 98
• 7.7 Field drawings and photographs = 98
• 7.8 Conclusion = 102
• 7.9 Literature cited = 102
• 8. Enhancing interpretation : case studies for open air and house museums = 103
• 8.1 Introduction = 103
• 8.2 Tree-ring analysis of outdoor and house museums : opportunities and challenges = 105
• 8.3 Delphi Canal Park : case study of an open air museum = 106
• 8.3.1 Fouts House = 106
• 8.3.2 Loom House = 109
• 8.3.3 Kuns House = 109
• 8.3.4 Speece Shelter = 111
• 8.3.5 Bowen House = 111
• 8.3.6 Reed and Mariah Case House = 112
• 8.3.7 Summary of the tree-ring analysis of Delphi Canal Park = 113
• 8.4 John Hay Center = 113
• 8.4.1 John Hay House addition = 113
• 8.4.2 Haganman House = 115
• 8.5 Jeremiah Sullivan House = 116
• 8.6 Grayson House = 119
• 8.7 Frederick and Sophia Wyneken House = 121
• 8.8 Grouseland = 126
• 8.9 Conclusion = 127
• 8.10 Literature cited = 127
• 9. Case studies. dating and interpreting diverse cultural landscapes = 129
• 9.1 Introduction = 129
• 9.1.1 Dendrochronology and interpreting historic sites = 129
• 9.2 Using dendrochronology to identify historic slave dwellings = 131
• 9.2.1 The Sanders House and the Clay Hill Cabin = 131
• 9.3 The George DeBaptiste House = 139
• 9.4 Eleutherian College = 141
• 9.4.1 The classroom and chapel building = 141
• 9.4.2 Caretaker's House = 142
• 9.4.3 The Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House = 143
• 9.4.4 Tree-ring analysis of Eleutherian College = 143
• 9.5 Musee de Venoge = 147
• 9.6 Tree-ring analysis of the George Ash House = 150
• 9.7 Conclusion = 153
• 9.8 Literature cited = 153
• 10. Chronicling landscape evolution using tree-ring analysis = 156
• 10.1 Introduction = 156
• 10.2 The fort in the doctor's house = 156
• 10.3 Fort Wayne archival and secondary sources = 158
• 10.4 The archaeology of North American forts = 160
• 10.5 Unique sources for documenting Fort Wayne = 161
• 10.6 Dendrochronology results = 163
• 10.7 Huxford House conclusions = 169
• 10.8 Dendrochronological analysis of a 19th-century farmstead : introduction = 170
• 10.9 Archival and scholarly sources for the Glenn Farmstead = 170
• 10.10 Farmstead structures = 171
• 10.10.1 Apple House = 171
• 10.10.2 Robert Glenn House = 173
• 10.10.3 English barn = 174
• 10.10.4 Woodshed = 177
• 10.10.5 Corncrib = 177
• 10.10.6 Sheep barn = 178
• 10.11 Glenn Farmstead conclusions = 179
• 10.12 Literature cited = 181
• 11. New Harmony, Indiana : tree-ring analysis of a communal and utopian landscape = 184
• 11.1 Introduction = 184
• 11.2 Harmonist housing = 186
• 11.3 Archival and scholarly sources for New Harmony buildings = 187
• 11.4 Community House No. 2 = 189
• 11.4.1 Tree-ring analysis of Community House No. 2 = 191
• 11.4.2 Dendrochronology results for Community House No. 2 = 191
• 11.5 Community House No. 4／Thrall's Opera House = 194
• 11.5.1 Community House No. 4／Thralls Opera House archival and scholarly sources = 196
• 11.5.2 Community House No. 4／Thralls Opera House dendrochronology results = 196
• 11.6 Mattias Scholle House = 199
• 11.6.1 Archival and scholarly sources for the Scholle House = 199
• 11.6.2 Dendrochronology results for the Scholle House = 201
• 11.7 Fauntleroy House = 203
• 11.7.1 Archival and scholarly sources for the Fauntleroy House = 204
• 11.7.2 Dendrochronology results for the Fauntleroy House = 204
• 11.8 Summary of the tree-ring analysis of Harmonist buildings = 207
• 11.9 Conclusion = 207
• 11.10 Literature cited = 207
• 12. Innovation to obsolescence : tree-ring analysis of a regional barn type = 209
• 12.1 Early commercial production and shipping of hay = 209
• 12.2 Defining, interpreting, and preserving a regional vernacular barn type = 211
• 12.3 Archival sources and scholarship of Mormon beater hay press barns = 212
• 12.4 Testing theories for an evolution in press barn forms = 212
• 12.4.1 Results of the tree-ring analysis of hay press barns = 218
• 12.5 Tree-ring analysis of the Justi and Mary Thiebaud Farmstead = 221
• 12.5.1 Thiebaud House and Corncrib = 228
• 12.5.2 Thiebaud Farmstead summary = 229
• 12.6 Detecting recycled timbers in new press barns = 230
• 12.6.1 Posey Township Hay Press Barn = 230
• 12.6.2 Anderson Hay Barn = 230
• 12.7 Using dendrochronology to establish a vernacular precedent for beater hay press barns = 236
• 12.8 Conclusion = 240
• 12.9 Literature cited = 240
• 13. Unique applications of tree-ring data = 242
• 13.1 Introduction = 242
• 13.2 Using tree rings to make sense of timber selection = 242
• 13.2.1 Why use a specific timber type? = 243
• 13.2.2 Are there biases in timber selection? = 243
• 13.2.3 What species of trees are available for construction? = 246
• 13.2.4 Methods for identifying timber bias = 247
• 13.2.5 Does species availability change over time? = 250
• 13.2.6 Summary of timber type selection = 252
• 13.3 Determining timber origin : dendroprovenancing = 253
• 13.3.1 Determining timbers' geographic source = 254
• 13.3.2 Sullivan House = 255
• 13.3.3 Thiebaud Hay Press Barn = 256
• 13.3.4 Braytown North Hay Press Barn = 259
• 13.3.5 White pine in the mid-Ohio River Valley = 259
• 13.4 Conclusion = 260
• 13.5 Literature cited = 260
• 14. Active inquiry : dating a 19th-century log house using historical documents and tree-ring science = 263
• 14.1 Introduction = 263
• 14.2 Historical documentation = 265
• 14.3 Tree-ring samples = 266
• 14.4 Crossdating and date assignment = 267
• 14.5 Conclusion : can you date my building? = 270
• 14.6 Literature cited = 270
• Index = 271