Nicholas Kessler

I am a dendroarchaeologist focused on North America. I collaborate with scholars, resource managers, as well as tribal governments and communities to develop tree-ring-based chronologies for research and heritage preservation. I supervise the Southwestern Dendroarchaeological Lab (https://ltrr.arizona.edu/content/southwestern-dendroarchaeology) at the LTRR that provides fee-for-service dendrochronological dating on archaeological or historical wood. 

My recent research has focused on: 

1. Understanding past institutions through the chronological analysis of monumental architecture in the archaeological record 
   • https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2022.84
   • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333783
2. High-precision dating and chronological modeling of indigenous places during the early-Colonial period
   • https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.140
   • https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2026.10225
3. Developing and applying dendrochronological methods for desert tree species and desert environments to extend high-resolution tree-ring-based chronologies beyond the geographical range of traditional ring-width crossdating
   •  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103289
   • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104440