Bruno David (Monash University), Michael-Shawn Fletcher (The University of Melbourne), Simon Connor (Australian National University)

Cultural Burning

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Produktbeschreibung

This Element describes what cultural burning is and presents current methods by which it can be identified in historical and archaeological records, applying internationally relevant methods to Australian landscapes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 116g
• ISBN-13: 9781009485296
• ISBN-10: 1009485296
• Artikelnr.: 70200237

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. What is cultural burning? Caring for country with fire
3. Reading past cultural burning through colonial art
4. Cultural burning in the quaternary record-Scientific approaches, methods and applications
5. Historicising cultural burning through buried charcoal: amount of burned vegetation and recurrence rates of fire episodes in the Furneaux Islands, Bass Strait, Australia
6. Conclusion: implications for the investigation of past cultural burning practices globally
References.