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Pollen evidence of maize cultivation 2700 B.P. at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica

Horn, Kennedy
From the text... 'Because maize is a plant that requires human cultivation for survival, we can infer from the distribution of maize pollen that sedentary agriculturalists were present at La Selva by 2700 B.P. This interpretation is consistent with…
Type: Document
Year: 2001

Ontario Ministry of natural resources south-central region bobwhite quail rehabilitation program [abstract]

Hunter, Ludolph
Archaeological and historical evidence on status of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) in southern Ontario prior to European settlement is not clear. The bird was documented on the Essex and Kent County prairies at the time of European…
Type: Document
Year: 2000

Pattern and process in south Swedish forests during the last 3000 years, sensed at stand and regional scales

Lindbladh, Bradshaw, Holmqvist
1. Two palaeoecological data sets were used to study forest development in the boreo-nemoral zone of southern Sweden during the last 3000 years. Maps of forest types present in 1250 B, AD 500 and today were compiled from regional pollen data and…
Type: Document
Year: 2000

Wildland burning by American Indians in Virginia [including: The forest primeval; Sources of evidence for Indian fire use; American Indians and colonists in Virginia; and Did fire keep beech out of the canopy?]

Brown
From the text ... 'One of the first things that the English discovered about American Indians in Virginia was that they burned their wildlands. ...Four purposes for burning--agriculture, hunting, range management, and travel--would probably have…
Type: Document
Year: 2000

Vegetation composition, structure, and chronological change in a decadent midwestern North American savanna remnant

Bowles, McBride
Fire-maintained oak savannas on silt-loam soils essentially disappeared from midwestern North America soon after European settlement because of fire suppression and agriculture. As a result, there are no precise models for restoring this vegetation…
Type: Document
Year: 1998

Pre-Columbian Native American use of fire on southern Appalachian landscapes

Delcourt, Delcourt
Fire suppression in the southern Appalachians is widely considered responsible for decreased regeneration in oak (Quercus) and fire-adapted species such as table mountain pine (Pinus rigida) and pitch pine (Pinus pungens) (Barden & Woods 1976;…
Type: Document
Year: 1997

Oak ecosystems and human-set fires in the midwest: from prehistoric to historic times

Bray
From the text... 'The purpose of this report is to attempt to evaluate the evidence for widespread human manipulation of the environment in the Midwestern United States. The study will focus primarily on the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,…
Type: Document
Year: 1995

Archeological evidence for the impact of mega-Nino events on Amazonia during the past two millennia

Meggers
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Type: Document
Year: 1994

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