Recent Examples on the WebSo researchers turned to dendrochronology — the dating of objects by the growth rings in timber — and a chainsaw. Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022 The word was modeled on dendrochronology, the dating of trees by their annual growth rings. Steven N. Austad, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022 Then the work of interpreting the language of the wood got going in earnest, using dendrochronology, a range of scientific techniques developed in the course of a century. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022 Jonathan Barichivich, a scientist from Chile who specializes in dendrochronology, and his colleague Antonio Lara announced their findings last month. Felicia Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022 Researchers typically calculate a tree’s age with a process known as dendrochronology, which involves counting the number of rings in the tree’s trunk. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022 One afternoon, in the early nineteen-twenties, Douglass gave a talk about dendrochronology. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022 The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research is the world’s oldest dendrochronology lab, and still one of the most renowned. Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2021 Earlier in this century, an individual Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in California’s White Mountains was dated using tree-ring analysis, or dendrochronology, and found to be more than 5,000 years old. Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2021 See More