Document

Title

Indian fires in the prehistory of New England
Document Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): W. A. Patterson III; K. E. Sassaman
Editor(s): G. P. Nicholas
Publication Year: 1988

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • Abies spp.
  • agriculture
  • Alnus
  • archaeological sites
  • Betula
  • bibliographies
  • biogeography
  • burning intervals
  • charcoal
  • coastal plain
  • community ecology
  • cover type conversion
  • dendrochronology
  • distribution
  • droughts
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • ecotones
  • England
  • erosion
  • European settlement
  • fire frequency
  • fire injuries (plants)
  • fire intensity
  • fire regimes
  • fire scar analysis
  • fossils
  • grasses
  • habitat conversion
  • habitat types
  • hardwood forests
  • human caused fires
  • hunting
  • ignition
  • land use
  • landscape ecology
  • lightning caused fires
  • low intensity burns
  • mosaic
  • Native Americans
  • New England
  • paleoecology
  • paleontology
  • Picea
  • Pinus rigida
  • Pinus strobus
  • plant communities
  • plant growth
  • population density
  • post fire recovery
  • prehistoric fires
  • presettlement fires
  • Quercus
  • season of fire
  • sedimentation
  • slash and burn
  • statistical analysis
  • topography
  • Tsuga
  • wilderness areas
  • wildfires
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Record Last Modified: June 1, 2018
FRAMES Record Number: 30259
Tall Timbers Record Number: 4240
TTRS Location Status: Not in file
TTRS Call Number: Fire File DDW
TTRS Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission

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Citation:
Patterson WA, I. I. I., and K. E. Sassaman. 1988. Indian fires in the prehistory of New England, in GP Nicholas ed., Holocene human ecology in northeastern North America. Plenum, p. 107-135.