ABSTRACT
Dendrochronology by establishing the year-by-year chronology for the Holocene has set the ultimate chronological standard. All other sources of information on fine resolution climate change must ultimately fit themselves to deductions from the tree-ring calendar. This chapter reviews the principal long chronologies and explores the types of fine-resolution information becoming available from them, be it archaeological, tectonic, volcanic or climatic. A strong indication is given that the most profitable direction for future research lies in a multi-proxy approach that combines information from various well-dated proxies in order to paint the broadest possible picture of short-term events in the past.
