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Implications of a 14,200 year contiguous fire record for understanding human-climate relationships at Goochs Swamp, New South Wales, Australia

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

Pre-European fire regimes in Australian ecosystems

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

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