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Aoife Daly

About

Aoife Daly is an Irish dendroarchaeologist with a PhD in archaeology, specialising in the dating and provenance determination of historical timber. She has worked in Scandinavia since 1997, held a position at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, and now runs the independent laboratory Dendro.dk. She is widely recognised for her work on maritime archaeology and for pioneering non-invasive dendrochronology using industrial CT scanning.

63
scientific publications (ResearchGate)
642
citations (ResearchGate)
90+
objects CT-scanned non-invasively from Oseberg and Gokstad

What's new

  • 2026

    Daly published an article on wood studies of the medieval wreck Lootsi 8 from Tallinn in the journal Dendrochronologia.

  • sep 2025

    Daly and co-authors published a response to criticism of their revised dating of the Grønhaug ship in Norwegian Archaeological Review.

  • jun 2025

    Daly, Kimball and Bill published a revision of the dendrochronological dating of the Grønhaug ship with methodological and interpretative implications.

  • dec 2025

    Daly called for submissions to the special issue 'Dendrochronology and the Human Past' in Dendrochronologia with a deadline of 31 December 2025.

  • dec 2024

    Daly contributed two chapters to the anthology Sacred Medieval Objects and Their Afterlives in Scandinavia on dendrochronological analysis of late medieval wooden objects.

Tracks

Timber, Trade and Tree-rings (ph.d.-afhandling, 2007)Fundamental work on dendrochronological provenance determination of archaeological timber
TIMBER-projektet (ERC, 2016-2022)ERC-funded project on Northern European timber resources ca. 1100-1700, led from the Saxo Institute
DendroCT - Dendrochronology without damage (2012)Groundbreaking article on non-invasive dendrochronology via CT scanning, published in Dendrochronologia
Lootsi 8-vraget, Tallinn (2026)Wood studies of medieval cog found at Tallinn harbor, published in Dendrochronologia 2026
Grønhaug-skibet - revideret datering (2025)Article in Norwegian Archaeological Review with methodologically important revision of the ship's dendrochronological dating

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