We synthesize existing sedimentary charcoal records to reconstruct Holocene fire history at
regional, continental and global scales. The reconstructions are compared with the two …

We have compiled 223 sedimentary charcoal records from Australasia in order to examine
the temporal and spatial variability of fire regimes during the Late Quaternary. While some of …

The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

This book addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history
of our species, the change from foraging (hunting and gathering) to farming. Ten thousand …

Multidisciplinary investigations at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea show
that agriculture arose independently in New Guinea by at least 6950 to 6440 calibrated …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Recent archaeological research has fundamentally altered our understanding of the scope
of past human impacts on nondomesticated animal populations. Predictions derived from …

Harvesting different species as foods or raw materials calls for differing skills depending on
the species being harvested and the circumstances under which they are being taken. In …

Glacial− interglacial variations in CO2 and methane in polar ice cores have been attributed,
in part, to changes in global wetland extent, but the wetland distribution before the Last …