Multi-method analysis of a historic wooden trough from Kentucky, USA: a case study in corroborating artifact oral histories with heritage science

Heritage Science

Table 3 T-values obtained from CDendro [47] between the outer trough ring width sequence and various tree-ring chronologies from the region (Midwest/Southeast U.S.)

Chronology name	Species	Reference	t-value
Mammoth Cave Recollect	Q. alba	[42]	5.0
Babler State Park	Q. alba	[52]	4.0
Lilley Cornett Tract	Q. alba	[50]	3.1
Chattahoochee National Forest	L. tulipifera	[54]	2.8
Piney Creek Pocket Wilderness	Q. alba	[53]	2.7
Andrew Johnson Woods Ohio	Q. alba	[51]	2.4

There were 90 years of overlap between this portion of the trough sequence and all chronologies