Burning the land: An ethnographic study of off-site fire use by current and historically documented foragers and implications for the interpretation of past fire practices in the landscape

Current Anthropology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 299-326

  Scherjon, Fulco ^a   Bakels, Corrie ^a   MacDonald, Katharine ^a   Roebroeks, Wil ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84927734982     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/681561     Document Type: Article

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