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Native American fire management at an ancient wildland-urban interface in the Southwest United States

Roos, Swetnam, Ferguson, Liebmann, Loehman, Welch, Margolis, Guiterman, Hockaday, Aiuvalasit, Battillo, Farella, Kiahtipes
The intersection of expanding human development and wildland landscapes—the “wildland–urban interface” or WUI—is one of the most vexing contexts for fire management because it involves complex interacting systems of people and nature. Here, we…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Friggens, Loehman, Constan, Kneifel
Background: Wildfires of uncharacteristic severity, a consequence of climate changes and accumulated fuels, can cause amplified or novel impacts to archaeological resources. The archaeological record includes physical features associated with human…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Archaeological evidence on the diffusion and evolution of maize in northeastern Mexico

Mangelsdorf, MacNeish, Galinat
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Type: Document
Year: 1956

Archaeological evidence on the evolution of maize in northwestern Mexico

Mangelsdorf, Lister
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Type: Document
Year: 1956

Estimates of teosinte introgression in archaeological maize

Galinat, Mangelsdorf, Pierson
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Type: Document
Year: 1956

Fire as the first great force employed by man

Stewart
From the text...'The unrestricted burning of vegetation appears to be a universal culture trait among historic primitive peoples and therefore was probably employed by our remote ancestors. Archeology indicates that extensive areas of the Old and…
Type: Document
Year: 1956