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Fire and Archaeology: working together to protect cultural resources during wildfire and prescribed fire

Land managers are challenged to protect cultural resources within the context of reintroducing fire on the landscape. Positive relationships and partnerships are essential to effective management.
Type: Media
Year: 2018

Native American influences on the forest composition of the Allegheny Plateau, northwest Pennsylvania

Black, Ruffner, Abrams
We integrate witness tree distribution, Native American archaeological sites, and geological and topographic variables to investigate the relationships between Native American populations and pre-European settlement forest types on the Allegheny…
Type: Document
Year: 2006

Understanding the evidence for historical fire across eastern forests

Ruffner
Evidence for historical fire across the eastern deciduous biome spans several fields, including paleoecology, fire scar analysis, witness tree studies, historical documents and ethnographic sources. In this paper I provide an overview of many of…
Type: Document
Year: 2006