This man from Windsor unlocks the secrets held in the rings of a tree.
The story of dendrochronology.

Andrew Ellicott Douglass passed away at the age of 94 on this day in 1962. Douglass, an archeologist and astronomer, had been born in Windsor.

Most people know Douglass because of one particular scientific contribution that he named dendrochronology. Roughly translated, dendrochronology means the ringed dating of trees.

Douglass discovered a direct correlation between the number of tree rings and the age and history of a tree and its geographic region. Analysis could uncover patterns in climate, food supply, rainfall and weather, while dating of the rings provided a rough diary of when the events took place.

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