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Fire and Archaeology
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[Description from Elsevier website] Tree Rings and Climate deals with the principles of dendrochronology, with emphasis on tree-ring studies involving climate-related problems. This book looks at the spatial and temporal variations in tree-ring growth...
Person: Fritts
Created Year: 1976
Type: Document
From the text ... 'Charcoal is largely unaffected by fungi or other woods destroying organisms. Consequently, it will persist in soil for great periods of time and often turns up in archaeological diggings and paleobotanical studies. The...
Person: Koeppen
Created Year: 1972
Type: Document
[From first paragraph] Dendrochronology may be defined as the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. The concepts and techniques of the science, as presented here, reflect the work and practice of the Laboratory of Tree-...
Person: Berger, Ferguson
Created Year: 1970
Type: Document
Another large and significant collection of prehistoric maize cobs (Zea Mays L.) with Tripsacoid characteristics that are indicative of introgression from either Tripsacum spp. or its maize derivative, teosinte (Zea mexicana Reeves and Mangelsdorf),...
Person: Galinat, Ruppe
Created Year: 1961
Type: Document
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...
Person: Thomas, Stewart
Created Year: 1956
Type: Document
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Person: Galinat, Mangelsdorf, Pierson
Created Year: 1956
Type: Document
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Person: Mangelsdorf, Lister
Created Year: 1956
Type: Document
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Person: Mangelsdorf, MacNeish, Galinat
Created Year: 1956
Type: Document
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Person: Mangelsdorf, Smith
Created Year: 1949
Type: Document