See https://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/dendrochronology
The challenge is there are gaps and spots where it doesn't quite match up. A bad few years and it throws the tree rings off. However, if you can pinpoint some reference event that spans the globe, you can line the samples back up again. This is known as cross dating ( http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/lorim/basic.html ) - it doesn't need to have a living tree.
Radiocarbon dating will never be precise (being able to pin down a specific year) because of the probabilistic nature of decay and the errors on that are on the sample. Carbon dating only gives a one sigma. Something that is 3500 BP (before present) can have a +/- 60 year error on it. Give https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculation_of_radiocarbon_dat... a read.