Wildfires affect 40% of the earth's terrestrial biome, but much of our knowledge of wildfire
activity is limited to the satellite era. Improved understanding of past fires is necessary to …

Tropical forests constitute some of the most diverse and complex terrestrial ecosystems on
the planet. From the Miocene onward, they have acted as a backdrop to the ongoing …

Archaeological indications for off-site burning by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-
gatherers present intransigent interpretive problems; by contrast, burning practices by recent …

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with'nature'and'wilderness';
battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the …

Abstract While the “Movius Line” may no longer represent a valid cultural division between
Early and Middle Pleistocene hominins in South and Southeast Asia, it still offers a useful …

Summary The" Wet Tropics" of Australia host a unique variety of plant lineages that trace
their origins to the super-continent of Gondwanaland. While these" ancient" evolutionary …

Commonly proposed definitions of the" anthropocene" suggest that significant human
alteration of the Earth system is connected to fossil fuel consumption coinciding with the …

Abstract Lake Barrine (17.25° S, 145.64° E), on the Atherton Tablelands in tropical northeast
Australia, was formed as a maar lake in the late Pleistocene. The 65 m-deep stratified lake …

Accounts of long-term cultural change in Australia have emphasised the late Holocene as
the period when 'complexity'emerged amongst foragers in Australia, associated with …

High resolution X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is presented as a robust palaeoclimatic proxy,
suitable for use on Late Pleistocene to Holocene sediments located in a volcanic crater on …