A dendroarchaeological tree-ring dataset of Abies alba Mill. from historic buildings in the French Pyrenees

The BENDYS French project (ANR-19-CE03-0010) aims at improving our understanding of the Holocene trajectories of six ancient and mature forests (AMF) located in the French Pyrenees, in order to improve their management and conservation (Py-Saragaglia et al. 2020). Of all the methods proposed, the dendroarchaeological approach was implemented to better characterize local timber harvesting strategies and forest dynamics in the past. These historical data indicate the widespread use of fir in stands of various ages in local Pyrenean construction, as well as the occasional use of other species. The archaeological survey have focussed on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees which led to the acquisition of 393 tree-ring series from historic timbers of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.), deciduous oak (deciduous Quercus), beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), pine (Pinus sylvestris type) and poplar (Populus sp.). The samples were extracted from 24 building timbers (Fig. 1) located in the immediate vicinity of current old-growth fir-beech forests (Sabatini et al. 2018, 2021, Larrieu et al. 2023). We successfully cross-dated 57 series from fir trees. 67 short series (less than 50 rings) were also dated but not included in the chronology (see for example: Bridge 2020). The other 269 series remain undated.

Date (Creation): 2023-10-01T20:23:00

Presentation form: numeric table

Purpose: The dataset has been created for past forest management strategies to produce timber used for historical buildings studies.

Status: Completed

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Liege / Royal Institute of Art Heritage	Labbas Vincent	vincent.labbas@uliege.be / vincent.labbas@kikirpa.be

Theme

Silver Fir/Ancient and Mature Forests/wooden buildings in Mountain/Early and Late Modern Period

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French Pyrenees

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Dendrochronology

Use limitation: Creative Commons BY 4.0

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Language: English

Begin date: 1446-01-01

End date: 1952-12-31

Codespace: EPSG

Version: 7.4

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	doi:10.48579/PRO/KH6HPC	data.InDoRES, V1
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-07-24T13:11:54.368055Z

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Liege / Royal Institute of Art Heritage	Vincent Labbas	vincent.labbas@uliege.be / vincent.labbas@kikirpa.be

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