1. DendroArchaeology NADEF – 2015 Gary Macadaeg Meghan Ladolcetta
Jeffrey Lee Benjamin
Bill Flynt
introducing,
Paul Krusic

2. #HistoPrestoDendro’sBesto

3. Overview
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion

4. Introduction Calibrating vernacular architecture Acadia National Park
Preservation and interpretation
Verification of historic records
Dendro’s utility in answering above

5. Locations Three houses Two on Great Cranberry Island
One on Mount Desert Island in Acadia National Park

6. Great Cranberry Island
Rice House
Dowling House

7. Mount Desert Island
Carroll House

8. Methods
Mapping

9. Dowling House 1839 1841 1840 1842 Red Spruce Unsampled 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 810 11 12 13 14 15
Dowling House

10. Rice House

11. Carroll House

12. Coring
Electric drills with
two custom bits
Numbered, noted, stored

13. Preparation
Glue to core mounts
Progressive sanding

14. Measurement
Skeleton Plotting
Measuring

15. Relative Dating

17. Chronologies

18. Calendar Dating

20. Cutting Dates The Rice House 1837-1840 The Dowling-Meyers House
The Carroll House
Phase I:
Phase II:
MDIC-20 (PCRU), felling date 1822

21. Logging and Deforestation

22. Further Research

23. Bibliography
Grulich, Anne Early 19th-century Concealed Shoes and Cape-style Houses on Great Cranberry Island, Maine. Research report for the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society (GCIHS): 1-18.
Hoadley, R. Bruce Identifying Wood: Accurate results with simple tools. The Taunton Press, CT.
Holmes, R.L Computer-Assisted Quality Control in Tree Ring Dating and Measurement. Tree-ring Bulletin, 4:69-78.
McLane, Charles B Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast Vol. II: Mount Desert to Machias Bay. The Kennebec River Press, Inc., Falmouth, ME.
Morrison, Peter Cultural Resource Assessment of the Carroll Farm, Acadia National Park, Southwest Harbor, Maine (Draft). Crane & Morrison Archaeology, in association with the Abbe Museum
Speer, James H Fundamentals of Tree-Ring Research. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson AZ.
Wilson, Jeremy S Nineteenth Century Lumber Surveys for Bangor, Maine: Implications for Pre-European Settlement Forest Characteristics in Northern and Eastern Maine. Journal of Forestry, July/August 2005:

24. Acknowledgements Our special thanks to:
The National $cience Foundation
Acadia National Park
The Schoodic Institute (and their wonderful staff with immeasurable patience)
Anne Grulich & Jesse ???
Rebecca Cole-Will
and Mia, the ferry girl

25. DendroArchaeological surprise!