This webinar will provide an introduction to the new edition of the Rainbow series that provides fire and land management professionals and policy makers with a greater understanding of the value of cultural resource protection and the methods...
Fire and Archaeology
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Person: Ryan
Year: 2012
Type: Media
This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire...
Person: Ryan, Jones, Koerner, Lee
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Aim: Despite small and transient populations, early MÄori transformed large areas of New Zealand's forest landscapes. We sought to isolate the biophysical predictors that explain forest loss in the pre-historic (i.e. pre-European) period in New...
Person: Perry, Wilmshurst, McGlone, Napier
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Aim Despite small and transient populations, early Maori transformed large areas of New Zealand's forest landscapes. We sought to isolate the biophysical predictors that explain forest loss in the pre-historic (i.e. pre-European) period in New...
Person: Perry, Wilmshurst, McGlone, Napier
Year: 2012
Type: Document
From the text ... 'Aboriginal man's ecological impact was mostly due to hunting, gathering of plants, and fire. By far the greatest effects were caused by the use of fire.'
Person: Jones
Year: 2012
Type: Document
The nature and scale of pre-Columbian land use and the consequences of the 1492 ''Columbian Encounter'' (CE) on Amazonia are among the more debated topics in New World archaeology and paleoecology. However, pre-Columbian human...
Person: Iriarte, Power, Rostain, Mayle, Jones, Watling, Whitney, Mckey
Year: 2012
Type: Document
At the time of Māori settlement, ca. 750 years ago, New Zealand's ecosystems experienced catastrophic change, including the introduction of fire to ignition-limited ecosystems and the resulting widespread loss of forest. While high-resolution...
Person: Perry, Wilmshurst, McGlone, McWethy, Whitlock
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Moorlands perform a wide variety of roles within modern society. A vital component of these landscapes is the patterning of vegetation, and management of this requires a thorough understanding of the drivers of vegetation change. Although there has...
Person: Fyfe, Woodbridge
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Disentangling the effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the environment is a major challenge in paleoenvironmental research. Here, we used fecal sterols and other biogeochemical compounds in lake sediments from northern Norway to...
Person: D'anjou, Bradley, Balascio, Finkelstein
Year: 2012
Type: Document
From the Summary ... 'Exposure of a historic structure or object to fire, regardless of the temperature that is generated, does not necessarily equate with destroying its value as a cultural resource. For instance, a low-temperature prescribed...
Person: Ryan, Jones, Koerner, Lee, Haecker
Year: 2012
Type: Document