Fire Activity and Environmental Archaeology
A special issue of Quaternary (ISSN 2571-550X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 864
Special Issue Editors
Interests: paleoclimate; ice cores; biomass burning; water resources
Interests: climate variability; tree rings; lake sediments; paleclimate, hydroclimatic processes; hydroclimatic processes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Humans have interacted with their environment through the use of fire for close to a million years. Fire is one of the main components of land use change. The degree to which humans have altered their environment through fire changes through time and by location, but records of human-caused combustion are present on every continent. Environmental changes, and especially changes in temperature, precipitation, and vegetation, can actively influence anthropogenic fire activity.
We welcome you to submit a paper to the Special Issue “Fire Activity and Environmental Archaeology”. This issue seeks to investigate interactions between humans, fire, and their environment using archaeological, geochemical, paleoenvironmental, and/or paleoclimate approaches. This issue is open to all time periods and regions.
Best regards,
Dr. Natalie Marie Kehrwald
Dr. Rebecca Brice
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- archaeology
- biomass burning
- climate change
- combustion
- environmental change
- fire
- human impact
- land use change
- pollen
- vegetation
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