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TI Testing the Hypothesis of Fire Use for Ecosystem Management by Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic Modern Human Populations
BT 
AF DANIAU, Anne-Laure
   D'ERRICO, Francesco
   GONI, Maria Fernanda Sanchez
AS 1:1,2;2:2,3;3:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:;
C1 Univ Bordeaux 1, EPHE, CNRS, EPOC,UMR5805, F-33405 Talence, France.
   Univ Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR5199, PACEA, F-33405 Talence, France.
   Univ Witwatersrand, Inst Human Evolut, Johannesburg, South Africa.
C2 UNIV BORDEAUX, FRANCE
   UNIV BORDEAUX, FRANCE
   UNIV WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA
IN DOAJ
IF 4.411
TC 45
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00231/34242/32652.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR IMAGES 1-MD101
   MD 142 / ALIENOR 2
BO Marion Dufresne
AB Background: It has been proposed that a greater control and more extensive use of fire was one of the behavioral innovations that emerged in Africa among early Modern Humans, favouring their spread throughout the world and determining their eventual evolutionary success. We would expect, if extensive fire use for ecosystem management were a component of the modern human technical and cognitive package, as suggested for Australia, to find major disturbances in the natural biomass burning variability associated with the colonisation of Europe by Modern Humans. Methodology/Principal Findings: Analyses of microcharcoal preserved in two deep-sea cores located off Iberia and France were used to reconstruct changes in biomass burning between 70 and 10 kyr cal BP. Results indicate that fire regime follows the Dansgaard-Oeschger climatic variability and its impacts on fuel load. No major disturbance in natural fire regime variability is observed at the time of the arrival of Modern Humans in Europe or during the remainder of the Upper Palaeolithic (40-10 kyr cal BP). Conclusions/Significance: Results indicate that either Neanderthals and Modern humans did not influence fire regime or that, if they did, their respective influence was comparable at a regional scale, and not as pronounced as that observed in the biomass burning history of Southeast Asia.
PY 2010
PD FEB
SO Plos One
SN 1932-6203
PU Public Library Science
VL 5
IS 2
UT 000274442800004
DI 10.1371/journal.pone.0009157
ID 34242
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