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Gilboa Fossil Forest. Coordinates: 42°23′48.98″N 74°27′7.84″W. Gilboa tree fossil ( Wattieza) Gilboa Fossil Forest, New York, United States, is a petrified forest and one of the oldest known forests. [ 1][ 2] Located near the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County, New York, the region is home to tree trunks from the Devonian period.
The Methuselah Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is the location of the "Methuselah", a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is 4,856 years old. [7] It is considered to be the world's oldest known and confirmed living non- clonal organism. It was temporarily superseded by a 5,062 year old bristlecone pine discovered in 2010.
Pando (tree) Pando (from Latin pando 'I spread'), [1] the world's largest tree, is a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) located in Sevier County, Utah, in the Fishlake National Forest. A male clonal organism, Pando has an estimated 47,000 stems (ramets) that appear to be individual trees, but in fact are all connected by a root system ...
The claim that Methuselah is the oldest known tree is controversial. Methuselah was 4,789 years old when sampled in 1957 [12] by Edmund Schulman and Tom Harlan, [1] with an estimated germination date of 2833 BC. Dendrochronologist Matthew Salzer of the University of Arizona has been unable to reproduce Schulman's age estimate, due to a missing ...
List of first human settlements. This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern (Age of Sail ...
List of oldest trees. Pando, a colony of quaking aspen, is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old. It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources.
As of the reporting date, it is the earliest forest yet discovered. [2] [7] [10] At an age of 390 million years, the forest pre-dates the previously oldest-known example—a root system probably belonging to Archaeopteris, discovered in 2009 near Cairo, New York [12] —by about four million years.
Çatalhöyük, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, was home to approximately 8,000 people during the Neolithic period, between around 10,000 BC to 2,000 BC, and is one of the world’s first ...