Anthropogenic burning and the Anthropocene in late-Holocene California

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1581-1587

  Lightfoot, Kent G ^a   Cuthrell, Rob Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; biomass burning; hunter gatherers; landscape management

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOCENE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS BURNING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; HUNTER-GATHERER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; POPULATION SIZE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941910901     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615588376     Document Type: Article

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