Fire-reliant subsistence economies and anthropogenic coniferous ecosystems in the Pre-Columbian northern American Southwest

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 23, Issue S1, 2014, Pages 135-151

  Sullivan III, Alan P ^a   Forste, Kathleen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic fire; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Pinyon juniper woodland fire ecology; Prehistoric northern American Southwest; Ruderal agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899479819     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-014-0434-6     Document Type: Article

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