Charcoal: Taphonomy and significance in geology, botany and archaeology

Scott, Andrew C.; Damblon, Freddy

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.044

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“…El carbón puede ser el resultado de acciones humanas con fines domésticos o industriales y es producido también en la naturaleza como resultado de incendios naturales y de la actividad volcánica (Scott y Damblon 2010). Al ser este elemento el producto de fenómenos naturales y culturales, distintas disciplinas se han interesado a lo largo del tiempo en el estudio de los procesos de formación del carbón.…”

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La gestión de recursos leñosos por cazadores-recolectores transicionales en los sectores intermedios de Antofagasta de la Sierra (Catamarca, Argentina): el caso de alero sin cabeza

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Aguirre

Hocsman

2013

Revista Chilena De Antropología

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La gestión de recursos leñosos por cazadores-recolectores transicionales en los sectores intermedios de Antofagasta de la Sierra (Catamarca, Argentina): el caso de alero sin cabeza

Escola

Aguirre

Hocsman

2013

Revista Chilena De Antropología

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“…If it becomes routine to analyze post-digest samples with whole-spectrum analysis, these results could be related to fire behavior or source material, which would create considerable insight for in situ charcoal formation. Charcoal C radiocarbon dates reveal the age of the charcoal which, combined with microscopic botanical imaging [36], would determine total residence time and the source species. Such an approach might be used to complete a paleo-ecological reconstruction of past species assemblages and fire behavior in these or other watersheds [37,38].…”

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Charcoal and Total Carbon in Soils from Foothills Shrublands to Subalpine Forests in the Colorado Front Range

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Sanford

2012

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Temperate conifer forests in the Colorado Front Range are fire-adapted ecosystems where wildland fires leave a legacy in the form of char and charcoal. Long-term soil charcoal C (CC) pools result from the combined effects of wildland fires, aboveground biomass characteristics and soil transfer mechanisms. We measured CC pools in surface soils (0-10 cm) at mid-slope positions on east facing aspects in five continuous foothills shrubland and conifer forest types. We found a significant statistical effect of vegetation type on CC pools along this ecological gradient, but not a linear pattern increasing with elevation gain. There is a weak bimodal pattern of CC gain with elevation between foothills shrublands (1.2 mg CC ha) and the lower montane, ponderosa pine (1.5 mg CC ha ). We propose that CC forms and accumulates via unique ecological conditions such as fire regime. The range of soil CC amounts and ratios of CC to total SOC are comparable to but lower than other regional estimates.

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“…Anthracology, the identification of charcoal based on wood anatomical characters, is a discipline primarily developed for palaeovegetation studies related to archaeology, palaeoecology, geology, and others (Chabal 1997, Scheel-Ybert 2004a, Scott and Damblon 2010. It also applies for archaeobotany and for the identification of contemporary unknown charcoal, in which case it can be used for charcoal control.…”

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Charcoal anatomy of Brazilian species. I. Anacardiaceae

Gonçalves

Scheel-Ybert

2016

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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Anthracological studies are firmly advancing in the tropics during the last decades. The theoretical and methodological bases of the discipline are well established. Yet, there is a strong demand for comparative reference material, seeking for an improvement in the precision of taxonomic determination, both in palaeoecological and palaeoethnobotanical studies and to help preventing illegal charcoal production. This work presents descriptions of charcoal anatomy of eleven Anacardiaceae species from six genera native to Brazil (Anacardium occidentale, Anacardium parvifolium, Astronium graveolens, Astronium lecointei, Lithrea molleoides, Schinus terebenthifolius, Spondias mombin, Spondias purpurea, Spondias tuberosa, Tapirira guianensis, and Tapirira obtusa). They are characterized by diffuse-porous wood, vessels solitary and in multiples, tyloses and spiral thickenings sometimes present; simple perforation plates, alternate intervessel pits, rounded vessel-ray pits with much reduced borders to apparently simple; parenchyma paratracheal scanty to vasicentric; heterocellular rays, some with radial canals and crystals; septate fibres with simple pits. These results are quite similar to previous wood anatomical descriptions of the same species or genera. Yet, charcoal identification is more effective when unknown samples are compared to charred extant equivalents, instead of to wood slides.

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Charcoal: Taphonomy and significance in geology, botany and archaeology

Cited by 108 publications

References 148 publications

La gestión de recursos leñosos por cazadores-recolectores transicionales en los sectores intermedios de Antofagasta de la Sierra (Catamarca, Argentina): el caso de alero sin cabeza

La gestión de recursos leñosos por cazadores-recolectores transicionales en los sectores intermedios de Antofagasta de la Sierra (Catamarca, Argentina): el caso de alero sin cabeza

Charcoal and Total Carbon in Soils from Foothills Shrublands to Subalpine Forests in the Colorado Front Range

Charcoal anatomy of Brazilian species. I. Anacardiaceae

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