1. 2004
  2. Fire and Archaeology

Fire and Archaeology

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

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...

Person: Engstrom, Galley, de Groot, Hirsch, Kafka, Todd
Year: 2004
Type: Document

The evolution of the cultural Mediterranean landscape in Israel as affected by fire, grazing, and human activities

The early evolution of the cultural Mediterranean landscape in Israel, with special reference to Mt. Carmel, is described with a holistic landscape-ecological systems approach as the coevolution of the paleolithic food gatherer-hunter and his...

Person: Wasser, Naveh, Carmel
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Subalpine vegetation dynamics in the southern French Alps during the Holocene: evidence from plant imprints and charcoal preserved in travertine sequences

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Person: Ali, Roiron, Guendon, Terral
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Permanent vs. shifting cultivation in the eastern woodlands of North America prior to European contact

Native food production in the Eastern Woodlands of North America before, and at the time of, European contact has been described by several writers as 'slash-and-burn agriculture,' 'shifting cultivation,' amd even 'swidden....

Person: Doolittle
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Old-growth wooded pasture in the Ozarks

Forests in the Ozarks are ancient: the dominance and density of their various arboreal and herbaceous species have fluctuated over time in relation to climatic change and cultural influences. This study examines the nature of the pre-European forest...

Person: Spetich, Jutnry, Stahle
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Evidence of hominin control of fire at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

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Person: Goren-Inbar, Alperson, Kislev, Simchoni, Melamed, BenNun, Werker
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Effects of fire on cultural resources in the southern United States

Fire is one of many ecological and cultural processes that affect cultural resources and the contexts in which they are located. Cultural resources are material and non-material representations of contemporary, historic, and prehistoric lifeways....

Person: Fowler
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Earliest signs of human-controlled fire uncovered in Israel

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Person: Balter
Year: 2004
Type: Document

As Earth's testimonies tell': wilderness conservation in a changing world

Too often, wilderness conservation ignores a temporal perspective greater than the past 50 years, yet a long-term perspective (centuries to millennia) reveals the dynamic nature of many ecosystems. Analysis of fossil pollen, charcoal and stable...

Person: Gillson, Willis
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Archaeological sites and fire-induced changes

The 2003 Mustang Fire required Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) treatment and monitoring of archaeological sites on Ashley National Forest in northeastern Utah. The fire burned over 20,000- acre area and nearly 300 known sites. Ashley Heritage...

Person: Johnson
Year: 2004
Type: Document