But there's much more information to be gleaned from growth rings than simply a tree's age. This information comes to us through the science of dendrochronology. Tree rings can reveal more than ...

Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this precise, and even more so. Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern England not only was built in ...

Tree rings are created under the bark as the organism grows taller and thicker. Experts can tell how old a tree is by its number of growth rings. This sequoia has a long history. The tree was 1,300 ...

Dendrochronology, from the Greek words for “tree” (dendros) and “time” (chronos), uses tree rings to study the histories of forests, the climate, and human civilizations, as well as the links among ...

The first significant figures in Aragorn's family tree are Elu Thingol ... in The Lord of the Rings. While Aragorn's family played a major role in Middle-earth's history, few did as much as ...