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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
Lepofsky, Lertzman
Ethnographic literature documents the pervasiveness of plant-management strategies, such as prescribed burning and other kinds of cultivation, among Northwest Peoples after European contact. In contrast, definitive evidence of precontact plant…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Black, Mooney, Attenbrow
This paper interprets macroscopic charcoal (>250 μm), humification and loss-on-ignition over the last ~14200 cal. BP from Goochs Swamp, located to the west of Sydney in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. This study aimed to…
Type: Document
Year: 2008
Enright, Thomas
We use multiple lines of evidence, including palaeo-environmental, ecological, historical, anthropological and archaeological, to investigate pre-European fire regimes in Australia, with particular focus on the extent to which the use of fire by…
Type: Document
Year: 2008