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Aoife Daly
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Dendroarchaeology, shipwreck archaeology. I'm Irish & Danish. TIMBER
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Sunrise. Off to Eurodendro in Riga.
Sunrise. The sun just before it broke the horizon, over a flat danish landscape. Orange clouds.
September 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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And Fox lies.

It says "fully depreciated" you evil fucks!
Fox writes that, under the photo of Epstein with a fake check, it reads "fully dedicated". Fox are liars.
September 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Here is my contribution to #superseabirdsunday
Seagull on a wall, photographed in Naples last year. The city of Naples is out of focus in the background.
September 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Just a little reminder. Our Special Issue 'Dendrochronology and Knowledge of the Human Past'. Several papers online, and more being reviewed. But we decided to extend the paper submission deadline to the end of the year. Looking forward to your paper (detail from Ringsaker, photo: Aoife Daly).
Close-up view of one of the sculpture components from an altarpiece at Ringsaker Church, Norway. The carved surface also has a guild stamp, in the form of a hand, known from 17th century works from Antwerp.
September 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Latest paper out today, open access
doi.org/10.1080/0029...
A Revision of the Dendrochronological Date of the Grønhaug Ship – and its Methodological and Interpretational Implications. By Aoife Daly, Justin J.L. Kimball & Jan Bill. The doi link brings you to the article where there is also an audio link.
June 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Cat without a care in the world 😻
My ginger cat, asleep on a crochet blanket. Her favourite chair.
April 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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An early bloom. One tiny wood anemone already in the Swedish forest today.
Close up photo of a single wood anemone. Six cream-white petals, numerous yellow stamens. Among dry twigs on the forest floor.
March 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Dendroarchaeology friends!
Just a reminder of our Dendrochronologia special issue - Dendrochronology and Knowledge of the Human Past.
The first paper is already through the review process, out soon.
Submit your paper through this link:
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
🌳💍🏺
Photo of an oak hull plank from a Medieval boat. Lines incised on its surface form an image of an anchor.
March 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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The cocktail was called Shamrock Sour, but even ordering the first one, it was impossible not to ask for a Samrock Shower 🤩💚☘️
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Thanks Irish Embassy in Denmark 💚☘️💚
Picture of a green cocktail, for Paddy's Day
March 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"New evidence of re-use of an oak panel in Estonia: Covers of the fifteenth century Codex of Türi." We combine dendrochronology and Sr isotopes to examine the origin of the book binding. Free access until April 30th.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kk~-4ckJF...
Läänelaid et al 2025, J. Cultural Heritage 73.
The photo shows two oak boards and binding. These originally bound the Türi Code book. The boards are identical in size, and are perforated to accommodate the leather thong binding.
March 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Writing up the results of my dendrochronological study of some shipwrecks from Kalmar today, came across this photo from our sampling last June. Just had to share.
In the foreground, in focus, is a timber from a medieval boat. In the background, out of focus, the archaeologist can be seen, as he saws a sample from the timber, for dendrochronology.
January 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A little story about our non-invasive dendrochronological analysis (DendroCT) of a Rembrandt painted panel.
www.dtu.dk/nyheder/alle...
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Aoife Daly, dendrochronologist, explains to a camera, her tree-ring analysis of the wood used for an oval oak panel, on which Rembrandt painted "Portrait of a 39-year-old Woman". The Panel is standing on a custom-made easel, on a rotating table, in a CT scanner at the Danish Technical University. I carried out the tree-ring analysis non-invasively from virtual cross-sections, attained from the CT scanning.
January 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Great to finally have the printed version. Includes non-invasive dendrochronology and past timber trade. 🌳💍🏺
Now to find time to read the other chapters.
"Sacred Medieval Objects and Their Afterlives in Scandinavia" Streeton, Frøysaker & Bjerregaard (eds.)
Photo of the front cover of new book "Sacred Medieval Objects and Their Afterlives in Scandinavia" editors Streeton, Frøysaker & Bjerregaard. Photo of pages 254-255, showing images of non-invasive sections through some of the oak objects studied, where the tree rings can be seen clearly for DendroCT. Table of contents. Part 1 "Original Object. Original Experience". Part 2 "Ageing Gracefully?". Table of contents. Part 3 "Interrogating Materials. Decoding Transformations". Part 4 "Becoming Medieval Heritage".
January 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Welcome to 2025.
We have just launched a call for papers for Dendroarchaeology - a special issue of Dendrochronologia.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
We welcome papers that shed light on the human past through dendrochronological analyses. Please take a look & share. 🌳💍🏺#dendroarchaeology
This photo depicts the remains of the outer planking and inner framing timbers from a shipwreck found at Køge Harbour in Denmark. The wooden trenails that kept the structure assembled can also be seen, and in the background the keelson is in situ. This wreck was excavated by the Museum of Southeast Denmark, in 2021. The trees used to build it were felled in southern Norway, in the winter of 1761-62 (Dendro.dk report 2023:59).
January 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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So do I 😻
The photo shows my long-haired orange tabby cat. Her name is Crumble and she is a very gentle old soul.
December 23, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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Daly & Wadum, "Dating and Beyond". 🌳💍🏺We outline the non-invasive dendro study of late medieval church furniture in the context of timber supply. pdf on request.
doi.org/10.1163/9789... In: Streeton, Frøysaker & Bjerregaard (eds) "Sacred Medieval Objects and Their Afterlives in Scandinavia"
Image of an oak board used to construct one side of the Kvæfjord II altarpiece. A trader's mark is etched into the surface.
December 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Our paper about our non-invasive dendro study of Norwegian polychrome wooden ecclesiastical sculpture & furniture reached 600 reads. Daly & Streeton 2017 link.springer.com/article/10.1... let me know if you can't access it.
Screenshot from researchgate saying my paper about non-invasive dendrochronology reached 600 reads.
November 30, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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Back in Tallinn to look at the Lootsi cog timbers 🌳💍🏺
November 18, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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Piraeus (Greece). An Egret🪶 spotted on the harbour foreshore last week. I also saw small shoals of fish, so it surely found its Friday dinner.
Egret
January 26, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Spotted in Piraeus (Greece). 🪶 I guess it's a sandpiper, but I'm not sure which. It wandered the rocks, while I enjoyed a G&T on the harbour. One week ago.
January 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Blackbird on apple tree. They're feeding on the fallen apples in the garden.
Blackbird on an apple tree
January 13, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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My latest paper about past timber trade. Remains of waterfronts in Copenhagen demonstrate the changing sources of structural timber over several centuries. It's open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.de...
Map demonstrates the source of oaks in mid-18th century waterfronts in Copenhagen
January 9, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Had the privilege to give a keynote at Conference “Cogge sive navis magna: Medieval Ships in the Baltic Sea Region“ superbly organised by the good folks at Eesti Meremuuseum. Talked dendro and shipwrecks for a whole hour. Excellent speakers throughout.
Photo of Aoife, on stage, with her start-slide in the background showing the title of her talk "Timber supply for 'Cogs' and other topical tree-ring tales"
November 25, 2023 at 7:36 AM
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Just joined the Blue Sky club. Starting off with a photo of oak tree rings from a ship's plank. I'll be posting about past timber trade and archaeology of timber structures, mostly (might add photos of my cats now and again too).
close-up photo of narrow oak tree rings
August 11, 2023 at 10:58 AM