By Dr. Ingrid Stelzner

Wood is one of the key materials in archaeological research. Besides the shape of the object, the wooden structure provides archaeological information. In our recently started project CuTAWAY (Conservation and wood analyses), computed tomography (CT) is used to analyse the structure of conserved archaeological wood non-destructively. The project aims to analyse the wood anatomy for dendrochronology of finds as well as the evaluation of the most common conservation methods.