The archaeological record is a combination of what is seen by eye, as well as the
microscopic record revealed with the help of instrumentation. The information embedded in …

Abstract “Fire regime” has become, in recent decades, a key concept in many scientific
domains. In spite of its wide spread use, the concept still lacks a clear and wide established …

The study presented here from the southern French Alps demonstrates the reliability of soil
charcoal analysis for the study of Holocene past treeline positions. The occurrence of …

Lacking long‐term dendrochronological and lake sediment data, little is known regarding
the history of fire in southern Appalachian forests through the Holocene. Here we used 82 …

We use high‐resolution records of macroscopic charcoal and plant remains from sediments
of a lake in the Swiss Alps (Gouillé Rion, 2343 m asl) to reconstruct local fire variability and …

Background It has been proposed that a greater control and more extensive use of fire was
one of the behavioral innovations that emerged in Africa among early Modern Humans …

This paper presents and discusses the use of soil charcoal analysis (pedoanthracology) to
reconstruct past forest dynamics in a larch forest of the upper Guil valley (French Alps …

We present a thematic set on pedoanthracological research. In this paper a comparative
analysis of soil wood charcoal from calcareous grasslands and pollen from an alluvial …

In the Mediterranean basin, steppe vegetation is considered to be the result either of land
clearing in the Neolithic or the result of harsh environmental conditions (shallow soils and/or …

Subalpine and Alpine soils in Val di Sole (Trentino, Italy) have been investigated in order to
reconstruct vegetation changes and human impact during the Holocene period …