Wesley Ferguson

Wesley Ferguson (1922 – March 24, 1986)^[1] was an American academic at the Tree-Ring Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona at Tucson who studied tree-rings.^[2] He built a tree-ring sequence from bristlecone pines which was used by Hans Suess to create a calibration curve for radiocarbon dating.^[3]

Footnotes

1. Morris, Elizabeth A. (1986). "Charles Wesley Ferguson ,1922–1986". Tree-Ring Bulletin. 46. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona: 1.
2. Aitken, Science-based Dating in Archaeology, p. 44.
3. Bowman, Radiocarbon Dating. p. 16.

References

• Aitken, M. J. (1990). Science-based Dating in Archaeology. London: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49309-9.
• Bowman, Sheridan (1995) [1990]. Radiocarbon Dating. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 0-7141-2047-2.