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Archaeologists have discovered an approximately 7300 year old wooden well during excavations in the Czech Republic. The researchers write in the "Journal of Archaeological Science" that it is the oldest preserved wooden construction, precisely dated by the annual rings. The shaft dates from the year 5256 or 5255 B.C.

The scientists were impressed by the "advanced carpentry skills" of our ancestors at that time. The oak panels were inserted in grooves in the corner posts.

The well was discovered by archaeologists during excavation work before the construction of a new motorway connection near the village of Ostrov in the Pardubice administrative region. It was only in December 2012 that researchers near Leipzig uncovered four wooden wells more than 7000 years old. The wells in Saxony are about 50 years younger than the one now discovered, said Tegel, who was involved in both projects.

Science direct: World's oldest dendrochronologically dated archaeological wood construction

7300 y old wood dated by tree rings. That pretty spiffy.

Such skill! You wonder how they were able to cut grooves and mill planks — and how they even came up with the idea of "frame and panel" construction.

they used a router

I saw an ad that if you sat through their online add for 30 minutes, you'd get access to a booklet of 1001 woodworking plans from Buck Connors Woodworking. Turns out the only thing I got was a spammed inbox 3 times a day to purchase $499 worth of video tapes.

All I wanted was how to rebuilt a century home's staircase to take out the triangle step. I did find some online calculators that seems pretty easy to use. The project has to wait until summer so I'm using different calculators to make sure they all give the same dimensions.

So yeah, I'd be interested in some great advice...

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Although these wells are 50 years younger, the report about those in Saxony gives some interested findings as well

Early Neolithic Water Wells Reveal the World's Oldest Wood Architecture

I was thinking of a squirrel-powered dado cutter .

It was aliens.

Dendrochonology is the term. It's one of those funny words that sticks in your head once you've heard it. Well it does me anyway.

Btw, the spell check hasn't heard of it either.

I'm sorry I can't help. You wouldn't want my help either. You'd want someone good.

all ya gotta do is work at it for 30 + years and all we say is tree ring dating so most people understnd when you talk about mthodology.

Most Fundamentalists dont accept its method, even when we hve photos of trees over 100 yars ago being planted and then using core dating a few years ago and the dates are dead on.

Syllabic economy, thats the ticket

It's a bloody good word, and I like using it.

The combined oak and pine tree-ring chronologies of Hohenheim University are the backbone of the Holocene radiocarbon calibration for central Europe, covering more than 12, 500 years.

TRIdaS has been adopted here in the US and I was no aware that there was a signd on standard for tree ring analyses.
Tree ring work that I do is NOT associated with archeological sites but is mostly used for doing "Tree ring ratio indexes" which help tackle the tracking of ground -water pollution near mining sites where things like organic solvents or arsenic/lad were part of the overburden .

Im really not sure that we have a standard here in the US. I know weve been using pecans and oaks as well as sequoia.

ABout 25 years ago we took up our old attic floor to actually insulate the upper floors (I never gave it a thought forthose years , I carefully removed the "attic pine" boards and saved them and put em up so they wouldnt cup , while I thought of some decent projects. I have about 8 really great pine boards of 16 foot by 24 to 26 inches wide !!!! by 6?4 stock. Im planning on building a bucket bnch and a diminutive blanekt chst after ons built by the "Soap Hollow" orkshop from the early 1800's. Soap Hollow was a boys chool an sorta like a training school for orphan boys. Ive already had several tempting offers to sell the boards to a woodcrafter who wa going to make a"Shaker style" series of base cabinets using the 8 great boards and the rest of them (They are all no less than 12 to 18inches wide.)

I decided to not sell them for Id always kick myself if I did. Nope, gonna make some antiques.

The oldest (widest) pine board, I had made a small line sample from which I extracted a core . I use the reference tree cores from Penn State and U of Penn American archeology labs. The widest board from which I purposely extracted a non perpendicular "To the heart wood center" and calibrated it from wood samples from the Old City of Philadelphia. Based on "cross indexing" (using local annual weather pattern from many years of wet,cold, drought and one flood event. e were able to date the boards to about -575 years (from the date when which I pulled them off the floors. We had a most persfect record of the precolonial era and french and Indian wars (when the trees were harvested and pit sawn and placed on an attic. The boards were all a bit ratty , as if theyd been used once bfore. (There were evidences of other earklier cast nails in the wood) Those I easily got freed and I stored em in the barn or about the last 25 years.

Ive gotten some plans from the Robacker estate and Im going to modify them somehwat (keep the spirit there but notmake it so ornate as the Robacher bucket bench had a "whaleback" frame and I wanted a more plain look so e could focus on the wood. Im going to dovetail the whole thing but first Ill draw it up to se whether it looks decent> Ive seen some dovetailed work that wound up looking way too "busy" when it got finished.
Any ideas lemme know. My woodworking buddies want me to do a YOU_TUBE, but usually those DIY You-Tubers are more interested in shooting off at the mouth and Im afraid Ill be like that and wont have anyone interested in the work..

Many youtubers talk so copiously because their revenue has something to do with it. I would be greatly interested to see a project like this.

I watch a guy called Peter Draws. He does rather clever doodles and is always getting sent fountain pens and art supplies from art compnies and his audience and he tries em out then keeps em. He is also sponsored by one of those companies that sells training DVD's on how to paint, draw, sculpt etc.

Maybe
Making **** from 500 year ol wood.

I know a guy who dives into the deepest parts of the Susquehanna River to rescue waterlooged logs that have been laying at the bottom of the river NOT DECOMPOSING. He brings em up and slowly dries em using polyethylene glycol . The wood takes ona really neat gray and red color.

Trouble is, I gotta take a short nap every day. Even on the job.

One time I took a nap while we were doing a LIDAR survey and I was the only guy at the base station. I fell asleep and woke up about an hour later and there were maybe q dozen wild turkeys all around. Usually you make a sound and they get spooked. These guys were curious about me(maybe they thought I was dead) and just hung out till I woke up and then they took off like rabbits.




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I understand about the naps. I've got to have them.

I went to youtube and subscribed to Peter Draws.