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Fire Histories and Rainforest Aboriginal Archaeology in the Wet Tropics Bioregion, North Queensland

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 234-269, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Unlike the dominant Australian savanna‐sclerophyll vegetation, tropical rainforests do not burn easily. Any evidence of fire in Australian rainforests therefore invites explanations of its source. Analysis of 187 radiocarbon dates that include selected charcoal fragments from 23 soil pits and 7 archaeological sites from the Wet Tropics ...
Richard Cosgrove, Åsa Ferrier, Fleur King, Laurance May, Simon Haberle, Ernie Raymont, Corrine Barlow, Judith Field, Patrick Moss, Ron Stager   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taming Trees, Shaping Forests, and Managing Woodlands as Resources for Understanding Past Societies. Contributions and Current Limits of Dendro-Anthracology and Anthraco-Isotopy

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
In many societies, livelihood strategies are based on a combination of economic strategies, including natural resources such as trees for wood, leaves, and fruits. Archeological wood charcoals are residues of human activity related to fire.
Alexa Dufraisse, Sylvie Coubray, Sylvie Coubray, Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert, Marta Alcolea, Olivier Girardclos, Frédéric Delarue, Thanh-Thuy Nguyen Tu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

New Insights Into Early Islamic Hydro‐Agricultural Strategies in Northwest Arabia: A Geoarchaeological Study of al‐Bint Dam (Sadd al‐Bint)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT The Sadd al‐Bint is one of the largest known ancient dams in Saudi Arabia, and yet, its construction date, function and collapse remained uncertain. This study presents the first numerical chronology for the dam, integrating radiocarbon dating, Bayesian modelling, geomorphological analysis and hydrological modelling to reconstruct its history.
Bruno Depreux, Munirah AlMushawh, Stephen McPhillips, Guillaume Chung‐To, Sylvain Colin, Elora Chambraud, Kévin Guadagnini, Saifi AlShilali, Mashael AlDughailbi, Fatimah AlRashidi, Khalid AlKhaldi, Charlotte Faiers, Rémy Crassard, Guillaume Charloux   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waste Management and Waste Disposal Detected by Combination of Analytical Methods: Late Bronze Age Březnice Settlement Site (South Bohemia)

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 525-548, July/September 2025.
ABSTRACT Waste disposal processes and landfill management are crucial subjects in the field of settlement archaeology. Our study is focused on understanding the processes that are connected to the formation of the infills of settlement features and the recycling of the building materials (daub and wood) and waste management.
Tereza Šálková, Kristýna Budilová, Jaromír Kovárník, Antonín Majer, Jan Novák, Jaroslav Pavelka, Barbora Strouhalová, Libor Vobejda, Ondřej Šťastný, Martin Kuna, Ondřej Chvojka   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the past through lynchet landscapes in the Vosges Mountains and the Lorraine Plateau (France)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 300-319, May/June 2024.
Abstract Lynchets are ridges formed by erosion and sediment accumulation downstream of agricultural plots and offer valuable insights into past agricultural activity. These microtopographies cover vast areas and serve as indicators of historical changes in land use. As a result, their ubiquity across Europe makes them particularly interesting.
Benjamin Keller, Robin Vincent, Dominique Schwartz, Damien Ertlen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling the Ancient Craft: Resin Use in the Roman Age at the Villa of Pla de l’Horta (Girona)

Zephyrus
In the heart of the historical exploration of the Roman villa of Pla de l’Horta, an archaeological site that has unveiled extensive data about ancient wine production and other economic activities in the Antiquity, we can offer new data of interest ...
Ana Costa Solé, David Vivó Codina
doaj   +1 more source

THE VEGETATION HISTORY OF THE SHEPHELAH, SOUTHERN LEVANT: MIDDLE BRONZE AGE–HELLENISTIC PERIOD (c.2000–100 BC)

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 23-42, February 2024.
Summary Although the Shephelah region (Israel) is of a great archaeological significance and has been intensively excavated, very little is known about its landscape history. This study presents two large‐scale charred wood assemblages (>2300 items) that were recovered from Tel Azekah and Tel Lachish in order to reconstruct the ancient vegetation of ...
Minji Jin, Oded Lipschits, Dafna Langgut
wiley   +1 more source

The Forest Refugium of the Bükk Mountains, Hungary—Vegetation Change and Human Impact from the Late Pleistocene

Diversity
The Rejtek I. Rock Shelter in the Bükk Mountains of the inner Western Carpathian region plays an important role in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental historical analyses.
Katalin Náfrádi, Pál Sümegi
doaj   +1 more source

Fuel Resources for Ferrous Metallurgy in the Perm Cis-Urals in the Medieval Period (experience in determining charcoal by scanning electron microscopy)

Археология евразийских степей
The paper presents the results of an instrumental anatomical study of charcoal. The aim of this work is to characterize the metallurgical process. There are several examples of charcoal as an object of study in the literature.
Andrey R. Smertin, Ekaterina A. Kurunova
doaj   +1 more source

Charcoals as indicators of ancient tree and fuel strategies: An application of anthracology in the Australian Midwest

, 2020
Anthracology (charcoal analysis) can inform about palaeoenvironments and human choices concerning the use of wood resources. While charcoal is commonly recovered during excavations, anthracology is poorly developed in Australian archaeology.
Dotte, Emilie, Winton, Vicky, Byrne, Chae   +2 more
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