Identification of Anthropogenic Burning in the Paleoecological Record of the Northern Prairies: A New Approach

Despite recent interest in the North American fire record, paleoecological evidence for the deliberate burning of grassland by hunter-gatherers has not previously been sought. Through the analysis of grass phytoliths preserved in a sequence of buried soil horizons in the Lauder Sandhills, southweste...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of the Association of American Geographers. - Blackwell Publishers, 1911. - 92(2002), 3, Seite 471-487
1. Verfasser: Boyd, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2002
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Schlagworte:Anthropogenic burning Holocene fire history Northern Prairies Phytoliths Biological sciences Health sciences Physical sciences