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The pristine myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492

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

Conservation and stewardship of tree-ring resources: living trees and subfossil wood

Van Pelt, Swetnam
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Type: Document
Year: 1990

Prescribed burning in California wildlands vegetation management

Biswell
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Type: Document
Year: 1989

Holocene vegetation, fire and environmental history of the Discovery Bay region, south-western Victoria

Head
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Type: Document
Year: 1988

Human disturbance of North American forests and grasslands: the fossil pollen record

McAndrews
Excerpt
Type: Document
Year: 1988

Indian fires in the prehistory of New England

Patterson, Sassaman
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Type: Document
Year: 1988

Early forest clearance and environmental degradation in south-west Uganda

Hamilton, Taylor, Vogel
Evidence for early agriculture can be obtained from pollen profiles indicating forest clearance1. The practice of cultivation is widely believed to have been introduced into the interlacustrine region of central Africa by Bantu-speaking iron-…
Type: Document
Year: 1986

The Bandelier blowup

Armistead
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Type: Document
Year: 1981

Presettlement barrens of Harrison and Washington Counties, Indiana

Keith
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Type: Document
Year: 1980

Tree Rings and Climate

Fritts
[Description from Elsevier website] Tree Rings and Climate deals with the principles of dendrochronology, with emphasis on tree-ring studies involving climate-related problems. This book looks at the spatial and temporal variations in tree-ring…
Type: Document
Year: 1976