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

Understanding the causes and consequences of wildfires in forests of the western United
States requires integrated information about fire, climate changes, and human activity on …

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

This review summarizes current understanding of drivers for change and of the impact of
accelerating global changes on mountains, encompassing effects of climate change and …

Understanding how arid western North American environments have responded to past
climatic conditions can help predict how they respond to anthropogenic climate change …

This book publishes the results of 220 botanical samples from the 1993-2002 Gordion
excavations directed by Mary Voigt. Together with Naomi Miller's 2010 volume (Gordion …

The present study seeks to better understand the coupling of social and biophysical systems
during the late Pleistocene and Holocene, a period characterized by changing interglacial …

The impact of Indigenous populations on historical fire regimes has been controversial and
beset by mismatches in the geographic scale of paleofire reconstructions and the scale of …

Archaeological and paleoecological studies demonstrate that human-caused fires have long-
term influences on terrestrial and atmospheric systems, including the transformation of “wild” …

Archaeologists working in the Ancestral Pueblo region of the American Southwest have
documented variability in sociopolitical and economic complexity, landscape use …