Can you tell the age of ancient wooden artifacts?
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Can you tell the age of ancient wooden artifacts?
Imagine you're at a museum, looking at an old wooden chair, and you wonder how old it is.
The age of wooden artifacts can be determined by examining the tree rings in the wood, a method known as dendrochronology.
Example
If the chair has 150 visible tree rings, it can be roughly dated to 150 years ago.
Remember this
Dendrochronology allows us to date wooden artifacts by counting their tree rings.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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