Testing the hypothesis of fire use for ecosystem management by neanderthal and upper palaeolithic modern human populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Daniau, Anne Laure ^a,b   D'Errico, Francesco ^b,c   Goñi, Maria Fernanda Sánchez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IBERIOTOXIN; CHARCOAL;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FIRE HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTION; FRANCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PALEOLITHIC; SOUTHEAST ASIA; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; FIRE; HOMINID; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; AUSTRALIA; BIOMASS; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FIRES; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949387851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009157     Document Type: Article

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