This undertaking is a multidisciplinary project with colleagues from the University of Arizona and Mesa Verde National Park, to use tree-rings to better understand the history and use of 640 cliff dwellings in the park.
Summer fieldwork projects by Dr. Stephen E. Nash and others will focus on collecting archaeological tree-ring specimens to date the sites, on enhancing existing tree-ring chronologies used for dating and climate reconstruction, and the search for culturally modified trees—ancient Native Americans manipulated trees in the late 1200s to produce construction beams of uniform size and shape!
