Extinct wook near Třeboň - the application of dendrochronology to a paůaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the area in the Early and High Middle Ages

The Mokré louky (lit. „Wet Meadows“) area near Třeboň is an extensive, today artificially drained, peat bog. In 1998, around 50 trunks of Sessile (Durmast) Oak (Quercus petrea) were removed from here, each around 10m in length and with a maximum diameter of 120 cm. Samples were withdrawn from 31 trunks for dendrochronological analysis, which showed that the deaths of most had taken place in a shor…