1. 2002
  2. Fire and Archaeology

Fire and Archaeology

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Native American impacts on fire regimes of the California coastal ranges

Aim
Native American burning impacts on California shrubland dominated landscapes are evaluated relative to the natural lightning fire potential for affecting landscape patterns.

Location
Focus was on the coastal ranges of central and...

Person: Keeley
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Native American impacts on fire regimes of the California coastal ranges

Aim: Native American burning impacts on California shrubland dominated landscapes are evaluated relative to the natural lightning fire potential for affecting landscape patterns. Location: Focus was on the coastal ranges of central and southern...

Person: Keeley
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Grasslands, heathlands and shrublands in coastal New England: historical interpretations and approaches to conservation

Aim This study evaluates the long-term history of grassland, heathland and shrubland communities that are high priorities for conservation in the north-eastern US and support numerous globally rare species. Such an historical perspective is necessary...

Person: Motzkin, Foster
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Fiery finds

Reports on a survey conducted by archaeologists on sites impacted by the Rodeo-Chediski wildfire in Arizona. Information on the archaeological sites within the fire's perimeter range; Details on the threat posed by wildfires to archaeological...

Person: Leonard
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Eolian deposition of forest-fire charcoal above tree limit, Colorado Front Range, USA: Potential contamination of AMS radiocarbon samples

Shallow soil cores from 56 localities along the crest of the Colorado Front Range were processed by water flotation and wet sieving, then examined for wood charcoal and charred conifer-needle fragments. Charred particles were largest and most numerous...

Person: Benedict
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Data on mid-Holocene climatic, vegetation and anthropogenic interactions at Stanshiel Rig, southern Scotland

Pollen, microscopic charcoal and peat humification analyses were applied to radiocarbon-dated peat cores to examine environmental change before and after the mid-Holocene transition from hunter-gatherer (Mesolithic) to agricultural (Neolithic)...

Person: Cayless, Tipping
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Archeological and historical basis for forest succession in eastern North America

The meaning of 'natural' as a guideline for managing public forests is questioned. Evidence of a rapidly shifting flora over eastern North America in recent geologic time is presented along with historical evidence of the open character of...

Person: Buckner
Year: 1983
Type: Document