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Cayless, Tipping
Pollen, microscopic charcoal and peat humification analyses were applied to radiocarbon-dated peat cores to examine environmental change before and after the mid-Holocene transition from hunter-gatherer (Mesolithic) to agricultural (Neolithic)…
Type: Document
Year: 2002
Benedict
Shallow soil cores from 56 localities along the crest of the Colorado Front Range were processed by water flotation and wet sieving, then examined for wood charcoal and charred conifer-needle fragments. Charred particles were largest and most…
Type: Document
Year: 2002
Leonard
Reports on a survey conducted by archaeologists on sites impacted by the Rodeo-Chediski wildfire in Arizona. Information on the archaeological sites within the fire's perimeter range; Details on the threat posed by wildfires to archaeological sites…
Type: Document
Year: 2002
Motzkin, Foster
Aim This study evaluates the long-term history of grassland, heathland and shrubland communities that are high priorities for conservation in the north-eastern US and support numerous globally rare species. Such an historical perspective is…
Type: Document
Year: 2002
Keeley
Aim
Native American burning impacts on California shrubland dominated landscapes are evaluated relative to the natural lightning fire potential for affecting landscape patterns.
Location
Focus was on the coastal ranges of central and southern…
Type: Document
Year: 2002
Keeley
Aim: Native American burning impacts on California shrubland dominated landscapes are evaluated relative to the natural lightning fire potential for affecting landscape patterns. Location: Focus was on the coastal ranges of central and southern…
Type: Document
Year: 2002
Craddock
Although firesetting is well recognized as one of the most ancient mining techniques for breaking up rocks, surprising little is known about the way in which it was practised. This article reviews not only the archaeological and historical evidence…
Type: Document
Year: 1992
Finney, Martin
Fire intervals were derived from analysis of fire scars on samples taken from 14 redwood (Sequoia sempervirens D. Don (Endl.)) stumps throughout Annadel State Park, California. Samples were obtained from small redwood groves that are isolated within…
Type: Document
Year: 1992
Denevan
The myth persists that in 1492 the Americas were a sparsely populated wilderness, 'a world of barely perceptible human disturbance.' There is substantial evidence, however, that the Native American landscape of the early sixteenth century was a…
Type: Document
Year: 1992