Woodlands of Antiquity: A millennium of dendrochronological data on forest exploitation and timber economy between the Alps and the Atlantic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 48, December 2025. SignificanceThis study presents empirical evidence of the deforestation driven by the Roman Empire north of the Alps and offers a unique, robust, and high-resolution dataset to explore woodland exploitation across a full millennium. By analyzing timber, …