Fields such as archaeology and historical sciences rely on tree-ring research to date artefacts that contain wood. For example, comparing tree-ring data enables researchers to identify timelines of buildings, shipwrecks, or wood panel paintings, by dating the trees that were used in the wood.
Dendrochronology
is also applied in environmental sciences to investigate when and where climate events such as
fire
,
pollution
, and flooding took place or to identify long-term geomorphic changes. (see DendroLab).
In order to rely on collective tree-ring timelines, dendrochronologists have created online, open-access, databases where tree-ring archives are stored digitally (e.g. the International Tree-Ring Data Bank, ITRDB).