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Methods of Felling Trees and Treering Dating in the Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Deric O'Bryan
Deric O'Bryan*
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Gila Pueblo, Globe, Arizona
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A dead trunk, seasoned hard, is extremely resistant to the blows of a stone axe and fairly unyielding to a keen axe of steel. A high percentage of wood specimens from ruins in the Southwestern United States which furnish outer ring dates before A.D. 600, are parts of trees that were dead before they were felled; they are often weathered, and sometimes show signs of having been attacked by secondary insect pests.

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American Antiquity , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , October 1949 , pp. 155 - 156
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1949

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