Dendrochronological references

• An Introduction to Tree-Ring Dating by Marvin A. Stokes and Terah L. Smiley. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1996. (First printing Chicago 1968.) ISBN 0-8165-1680-4
  
  
• Henri D. Grissino-Mayer's Ultimate Tree Ring Web Pages Here you will find an immense number of references!
• Henri's "Supplies for Tree-Ring Research"
• A manual and tutorial for the proper use of an increment borer
  or - with better quality pictures! - from the Tree-Ring Research archive
  
  Tree-Ring Bulletin and Tree-Ring Research archive
  
  
• The International Tree-Ring Data Bank
  Do publish your data at the ITRDB! It can be of great use for other people interested in dendrochronology. My own data from the island of Nämdö in the Stockholm archipelago is published here. We are now three dendro amateurs from Sweden who have published our data at the ITRDB!
  
  Finland:
• TREE-RING DATA BANK of SAIMA Centre for Environmental Sciences in Savonlinna Now available again!
• The LUSTIA website (Mauri Timonen webmaster) Do not miss the Connections list with many useful links!
  
  Denmark:
  
• The National museum in Copenhagen, Denmark: Danish oak chronology AD200-1986
  
  Norway:
  
• Nationalmuseets Naturvidenskabelige Undersøgelser, Denmark Many of the reports related to Norway contain measurement data that can be retrieved.
  
  Sweden:

  Torbjörn Axelson's dendro pages in Swedish from Björbo in Dalarna. Open within this frame! These pages contain some reference curves from Sweden not yet published at the ITRDB. They are, however, easiest reached through the Scandinavian reference list at Cybis Wiki It also contains many pictures of old Swedish barns and houses, see e.g. Hey-barns There are also pictures and info of dated windmills at the Baltic island of Öland

  
  

• Bertil Israels pages in Swedish on dendrodating, block houses and bee-keeping Contains several references not yet published at the ITRDB!
  
  
• A paper on dating certainty: Anatolian tree-ring studies are untrustworthy by Douglas Keenan. The t-score/worst-incorrect-match-diagrams described by the author are now available within CDendro, see the menu command Settings/Enable crossdating quality test functions.
  
  
• PDF-version of
  Spruce Budworms Handbook. Using Dendrochronology To Measure Radial Growth of Defoliated Trees.
  
  
• David Harms Holt: Did Extreme Climate Conditions Stimulate the Migrations of the Germanic Tribes in the 3rd and 4th Centuries AD?
  see especially the section BECKER AND GERMAN DENDROCHRONOLOGY which gives a view on the history of dendrochronology in Germany and the still not-for-everybody-available German oak data.
  
  
• Wood anatomy of central European species. This is a useful online tool for identifying anatomical structures of various tree species.
  See also the species list in http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/species.htm
  
• See also The DendroPic Database with many pictures of e.g. density variations (false rings).