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Jambrina-Enríquez, Rodríguez de Vera, Davara, Herrera-Herrera, Mallol
Different types of plant tissues and resin can account for the wax lipids found in sedimentary contexts and archaeological samples. Consequently, there is increasing research to characterize the fatty acid carbon isotope ratios of different plant…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Constantine, Williams, Francke, Cadd, Forbes, Cohen, Zhu, Mooney
Ethnographic observations suggest that Indigenous peoples employed a distinct regime of frequent, low-intensity fires in the Australian landscape in the past. However, the timing of this behaviour and its ecological impact remain uncertain. Here, we…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Stahlschmidt, Mentzer, Heinrich, Cooper, Grote, McNeill, Wilder, Steele
Heat-altered bones are a common occurrence in the archaeological record, and their analysis can provide detailed insights into past fire use behaviors and subsistence strategies. Heat-altered bones, however, may also result from natural fire events…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Hawthorne, Colombaroli, Mitchell
Climate change is allowing fire to expand into previously unburnt ecosystems and regions. While management policies such as fire suppression have significantly altered their frequency and intensity. To prevent future biodiversity/ecosystem services…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Copes-Gerbitz, Daniels, Hagerman
Indigenous land stewardship and mixed-severity fire regimes both promote landscape heterogeneity, and the relationship between them is an emerging area of research. In our study, we reconstructed the historical fire regime of Ne Sextsine, a 5900-ha…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Harley, Therrell, Maxwell, Bhuta, Bregy, Heeter, Patterson, Rochner, Rother, Stambaugh, Zampieri, Altman, Collins-Key, Gentry, Guiterman, Huffman, Johnson, King, Larson, Leland, Nguyen, Pederson, Puhlick, Rao, Catón, Sakulich, Singh, Tucker, van de Gevel, Kaiser, Ahmad
The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) and related ecosystem is an icon of the southeastern United States (US). Once covering an estimated 37 million ha from Texas to Florida to Virginia, the near-extirpation of, and subsequent restoration…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Shao, Zhang, Zheng, Gu, Xu, Yang, He, Lu
Extensive fires pose catastrophic threats to both human and natural ecosystems. Understanding the history of fire, particularly Holocene palaeofire activity in densely populated areas, is essential for predicting future fire risks and developing…
Type: Document
Year: 2023
Fermé, Civalero
Use of fire has been recognized for a long time as a key innovation in the development of human groups, as a multisource technological improvement. Fuel wastes recovered from archeological sites are the direct evidence of the fire use in society…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Leal, Gassón, Behling, Sánchez
In the Orinoco Llanos, archaeological studies indicate a continuous late Holocene human occupation, including the development of ranked societies, from about 1,500 year bp (ad 500) However, until now palaeoecological studies dealing with the…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Nanavati, Grimm
A multiproxy study from Sweeton Pond, Ozark County, Missouri, USA, provides a high-resolution 1900-year-long history of vegetation and fire in the southern Missouri Ozarks, where the modern vegetation is oak-hickory (Quercus-Carya) forest. Pollen…
Type: Document
Year: 2019