The Environmental Archaeology class (ANTH 4290/6290) took a trip to the Old Athens Cemetery located next door to the department. Here they had the opportunity to core trees for dendrochronology. Photos include students coring a red cedar tree in the cemetery and a collection of the tree cores where you can see the tree-rings. One of the undergraduate students pictured below, Rosemarie Owens, said, "I had a lot of fun coring trees! We got to look at the cores from multiple different species of trees growing in the cemetery next to Baldwin, comparing their ring size and finding evidence of pruning or damage to the trees.” The class, led by Dr. Brita Lorentzen, are going to use tree-ring and wood anatomy to learn when the cemetery's trees started growing and how humans have managed the local environment on campus. It is hoped that this data will be added to the Campus Arboretum database. Rosie further elaborated on some of the lab work they did and said "During our dendrochronology lab, we looked at the differences between fresh and carbonized conifer and dicot wood samples under the microscope. It was really cool to see the vessels in each sample!"