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Fire history and its drivers based on peatland charcoal analysis in the Changbai Mountains, north-east China, during the last 13 000 years

Meng, Jie, Li, Li, Liu, Gao, Wang, Niu, Liu, Zhang
The Changbai Mountains forest ecosystem is one of the best-preserved temperate mountain forest ecosystems in Asia. Since the establishment of the reserve in 1960, extensive forest fires have been excluded as a result of strict regulation and…
Type: Document
Year: 2020

Investigating fuel and fireplaces with a combination of phytoliths and multi-element analysis; an ethnographic experiment

Lancelotti, Ruiz-Pérez, García-Granero
The identification of fuel-related practices in archaeological contexts is almost always associated with the identification of fire-related structures. Charcoal analysis is the standard method of identifying wood use in the past; however, in many…
Type: Document
Year: 2017

Historical human influence on forest composition and structure in boreal Fennoscandia

Josefsson, Gunnarson, Liedgren, Bergman, Ostlund
In studies on natural dynamics, biodiversity and reference conditions legacies of preindustrial human land use are often neglected. In this study, using archaeology and dendrochronology combined with field surveys on present forest characteristics,…
Type: Document
Year: 2010

Human impacts on Persoonia falcata. Perspectives on post-contact vegetation change in the Keep River region, Australia, from contemporary vegetation surveys

Atchison
Persoonia falcata R. Br. and Buchanania obovata Engl. seeds are consistently preserved in abundance from archaeological sites across the Keep River region from 3500 B.P. up until the contact period. Although artefacts continued to be deposited after…
Type: Document
Year: 2009

Using forest management techniques to alter forest fuels and reduce wildfire size: an exploratory analysis

Hirsch, Kafka, Todd
During the next few decades, a considerable portion of the productive boreal forest in Canada will be harvested and there is an excellent opportunity to use forest management activities (e.g., harvesting, regeneration, stand tending) to alter the…
Type: Document
Year: 2004

Heritage resources and fire management: a resource management crossroads

Cartledge
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Type: Document
Year: 1996

Remembering the La Mesa Fire

Lissoway
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Type: Document
Year: 1996

The effects of fire on interpretations of the past

Spoerl
The effects of fire on material evidence of past human cultures have not been systematically investigated in the Madrean Archipelago. The potential of fire to alter interpretations of prehistoric and historic human occupation is an important…
Type: Document
Year: 1996

A short history of firesetting

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

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

McAndrews
Excerpt
Type: Document
Year: 1988