Wooden Book-covers, Printing Blocks, their Identification and Dating – How to Read the Wood

Wood is a unique material which is able to retain in its structure messages from the past. Woody plants, including trees, produce in each growing season a new layer of wood, which can be distinguished from the wood produced previously. Pallardy (2008, 2) has described trees as "complex biochemical factories that grow from seeds and literally build themselves". Growth takes place periodically, mostly on an annual basis. The life of a tree is controlled by its environment, and environmental factors responsible for it: whether the year or season was favorable for growth or not, are registered and saved in anatomical structure. Therefore wood is called a "biological archive" (Eckstein 1986) or "biological time capsule" (Baillie 1995)

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