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Sampling and quantitative analysis methods in anthracology from archaeological contexts: Achievements and prospects

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A critical review of the main methodological achievements in sampling and quantitative analysis in anthracology, the study of wood charcoal macro-remains from archaeological contexts is provided in this paper.
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This article is published in Quaternary International.The article was published on 2021-08-20. It has received 34 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anthracology & Wood fuel.

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Data and code for demographic trends in the paper "Human responses and non-responses to climatic variations during the Last Glacial-Interglacial transition in the eastern Mediterranean"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review and evaluate human adaptations during the last glacial-interglacial climatic transition in southwest Asia, and evaluate population change from summed radiocarbon date probability distributions, which indicate contrasting trajectories in different regions.
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Reconstructing the heterogeneity of past woodlands in anthracology using the spatial distribution of charcoals in archaeological layers: Applied to the postglacial occupation of the Abeurador cave (Hérault) in the South of France

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the distribution index to estimate the heterogeneity of the palaeoenvironmental distribution of each taxon and thus its random, uniform or clustered distribution.
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Changes in Wood Utilization Due to Iron Age Jade Mining in the Western Hexi Corridor: Wood Charcoal Investigations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the charcoal analysis of a jade mine site in Jingbaoer, in Mazong Mountain (northwest China), to explore patterns of the collection and use of wood by humans during the Iron Age.
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A vegetation record based on charcoal analysis from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, ∼227 000 to ∼44 000 years ago

TL;DR: In this article , a 4 m-deep sedimentary sequence that dates from more than 227 000 (227 ka) to 44 ka ago was studied using reflected light microscopy and wood charcoal reference collections.
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La représentativité paléo-écologique des charbons de bois archéologiques issus du bois de feu

Lucie Chabal
TL;DR: In this paper, a methode precise d'echantillonnage, excluant les foyers, and une analyse statistique de la fragmentation sont developpees ici.
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The ethnoarchaeology of firewood management in the Fang villages of Equatorial Guinea, central Africa: Implications for the interpretation of wood fuel remains from archaeological sites

TL;DR: In this article, a case study from the Fang society of Equatorial Guinea (central Africa) aimed at gaining a better understanding of the complex interactions between cultural, ecological and economic variables in firewood collection strategies.
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Plant economy of hunter-gatherer groups at the end of the last Ice Age: plant macroremains from the cave of Santa Maira (Alacant, Spain) ca. 12000–9000 b.p.

TL;DR: The use of systematic recovery techniques at the archaeological cave site of Santa Maira has allowed the recovery of a large amount of plant remains (fruits, seeds and wood) from Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic levels (12000-9000 b.p.).
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Forêts et sociétés en Languedoc (Néolithique final, Antiquité tardive) : l'anthracologie, méthode et paléoécologie

Lucie Chabal
TL;DR: Au-dela de l'identification des essences utilisees par l'homme, l'anthracologie peut restituer l'histoire des forets, sur la base des charbons de bois provenant du combustible domestique, a credibilite de la discipline repose entierement sur la definition d'une methode rigoureuse, de la fouille jusqu'a l'interpretation paleoecologique, objet de la premiere partie de cet ouv
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