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Starts: 19:30
Ends: 21:00
Part of Highland Archaeology Festival of Online Talks organised by the Highland Council Historic Environment Team
Two talks highlighting past work and future potential for the Highlands. Coralie Mills (Dendrochronicle) will discuss dating and provenancing Highland timbers. Rob Wilson (U. of St Andrews) will look at Trees, Climate and Declines. Bookings via Eventbrite (link).
Highland Council Historic Environment Team.
Phone 077888 35466
Email highlandarchaeologyfestival@gmail.com
www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org
Further Details:
'Rings in the North: Dendrochronological progress and potential in the Highlands'
Talk by Coralie Mills. The story emerging from archaeo-dendrochronological work in the Highlands is markedly different from southern Scotland, showing much greater reliance on native woodland resources for far longer. Therefore analysis of historic timbers in the Highlands can provide more than precision dating for structures; it can reveal past native woodland character and use as well as identifying the source and timing of any importation, and so could inform wider debates about climate change mitigation, reforestation and productive use of new native woods. This talk outlines the progress made and makes the case for greater uptake of dendrochronology in Highlands archaeology, above and below ground.
Dr Coralie Mills, a dendrochronologist and wooded landscape archaeologist, based in Scotland. Her consultancy Dendrochronoicle. focusses on woodland heritage and dendrochronology, including on how careful study of old wooded landscapes can reveal their amazing untold stories and on how tree-ring analysis and other complementary approaches can provide insight into the history of our cultural wooded landscapes and our built heritage.
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'Trees, Climate and Declines'
Talk by Rob Wilson. For much of the last 15 years, the tree-ring lab at St Andrews has focussed it attention on using tree-rings from Scots pine to reconstruct past summer temperatures for the Scottish mainland. Current research is now focusing on the future of pine tree growth in a changing world. Are we already seeing the signs of a systematic decline in some regions of the Highlands?
Professor Rob Wilson, University of St Andrews, actively researches late Holocene palaeoclimatology focussing on the use of tree-ring archives to understand the drivers of climate and environmental change.
