Fire history and treeline elevation in the Apennines: insights from pedo-anthracological analysis on Monte Cervati, Southern Italy [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionThe treeline elevation in the Apennines is significantly lower than its climatic potential, often attributed to historical anthropogenic disturbances such as fires, logging, and grazing. However, the specific impacts of individual disturbance
Giuliano Bonanomi +12 more
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Trunk- and branch- data derived radial increments of Pinus brutia Ten., Cupressus sempervirens L., and Quercus pubescens Willd. subsp. pubescens from Crete for dendro- and anthraco-typological analysisDataverse [PDF]
Data in BriefThis dataset provides tree-ring width series for three key Mediterranean tree species that were commonly used in Aegean Bronze Age architecture: Pinus brutia Ten. (Turkish pine), Cupressus sempervirens L.
Léane Levillain +5 more
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The “Archeology of the Light”: A multiproxy, interdisciplinary and experimental approach to Paleolithic subterranean activities. [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Open Research EuropeBackground This article presents the A-LIGHT project and its main results. The "Archeology of the Light" (A-LIGHT) project aims to improve our knowledge of Palaeolithic cave activities through an interdisciplinary methodology applied to rarely-studied ...
Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide
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Karnatukul (Serpent's Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia's Western Desert. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The re-excavation of Karnatukul (Serpent's Glen) has provided evidence for the human occupation of the Australian Western Desert to before 47,830 cal. BP (modelled median age).
Jo McDonald +7 more
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A context for the last Neandertals of interior Iberia: Los Casares cave revisited. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Introduction and objectivesAlthough the Iberian Peninsula is a key area for understanding the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and the demise of the Neandertals, valuable evidence for these debates remains scarce and problematic in its interior ...
Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño +13 more
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Les données paléoenvironnementales sur les sites archéologiques. Constats et retours d’expérience
Archéopages, 2022 In the framework of archaeological operations, palaeo-environmental data have always had particular status. Taking them into account is not a new phenomenon, but this was formalized only in the last decades, and their use was once more highlighted by the
Élise Nectoux +3 more
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Medieval rural landscapes and social change in Northern Spain: the archaeobotanical record for Zaballa (Alava, Basque Country) [PDF]
Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2019 In this paper, anthracological and palynological records of the Medieval deserted village of Zaballa in Alava (Basque Country, Northern Spain) are used to examine the transformation of rural landscapes.
Riccardo Santeramo +2 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 Anthracology is the identification of charcoal remains through wood anatomy. Paleoecological and paleoethnobotanical evidence from anthracological studies provides information on past environments as well as the fuel economy and use of plants by those ...
NATACHA R. DE SOUZA-PINTO +1 more
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Vegetation Dynamic of Southern Sistan during the Bronze Age: Anthracological Studies at Shahr-i Sokhta [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2012 To recognize the dynamic of vegetation in eastern Iran as well as to ascertain interactions of human societies with theirenvironment, the present study is carried out on charcoal samples collected from Shahr-i Sokhta dated back to the Bronze Age.This ...
Rouhollah Shirazi, Zohreh Shirazi
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Geosciences, 2018 Several episodes of past afforestation were reconstructed in a grassland area of the Yamskaya Steppe site within the “Belgorie„ natural reserve on the Central-Russian Upland.
Yury Chendev +5 more
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