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Climate and Land Use Effects on Holocene Era Vegetation and Fire History of the Ozarks

Nanavati
Although a wealth of research documents the interactions between climate, land use, vegetation, and fire in the Ozarks over the last 300 years, little is known about these interactions at longer timescales. Here, the Holocene vegetation and fire…
Type: Media
Year: 2020

Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England

Oswald, Foster, Shuman, Chilton, Doucette, Duranleau
An increasingly accepted paradigm in conservation attributes valued modern ecological conditions to past human activities. Disturbances, including prescribed fire, are therefore used by land managers to impede forest development in many potentially…
Type: Document
Year: 2020

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