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]

[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.

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.

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[TRB1986-1] [1]
Morris, Elizabeth A. (1986). "Charles Wesley Ferguson ,1922–1986". Tree-Ring Bulletin. 46. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona: 1.

[Aitken_44-2] [2]
Aitken, Science-based Dating in Archaeology, p. 44.

[Bowman_16-3] [3]
Bowman, Radiocarbon Dating. p. 16.

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