Cultural Burning
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Cultural Burning
Bruno David, Monash University
Michael-Shawn Fletcher, The University of Melbourne
Simon Connor, Australian National University
Virginia Ruth Pullin, The University of Melbourne
Jessie Birkett-Rees, Monash University
Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Michela Mariani, University Park
Anthony Romano, The University of Melbourne
S. Yoshi Maezumi, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology
Michael-Shawn Fletcher, The University of Melbourne
Simon Connor, Australian National University
Virginia Ruth Pullin, The University of Melbourne
Jessie Birkett-Rees, Monash University
Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Michela Mariani, University Park
Anthony Romano, The University of Melbourne
S. Yoshi Maezumi, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology
September 2024
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This Element addresses a burning question – how can archaeologists best identify and interpret cultural burning, the controlled use of fire by people to shape and curate their physical and social landscapes? 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. It clarifies how the transdisciplinary study of cultural burning by Quaternary scientists, historians, archaeologists and Indigenous community members is informing interpretations of cultural practices, ecological change, land use and the making of place. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Table of Contents
- 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.
