The Study of Indigenous Management Practices in California: An Introduction

摘要: AbstractThe purpose of this special issue is to present the findings a collaborative, interdisciplinary eco-archaeological project that examining evidence for indigenous landscape management practices in central coastal California Late Holocene and historic times. In introductory paper, we provide some background about traditional resource environment (TREM) California, discuss goals project, outline testable expectations anthropogenic burning, introduce papers volume. The represent coordinated suite investigations empirically evaluate degree which native people may have ignited fires around Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve near Point Ano Nuevo. Employing diverse lines derived from archaeology, silica phytolith research, palynology, plant population genetics, dendroecology, authors reconstruct past fire histories, faunal floral resources, vegetation convers...