Burning the Land
Burning the Land
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燃烧土地
作者：
F. Scherjon;C. Bakels;K. MacDonald;W. Roebroeks
考古学的迹象表明，更新世晚期和全新世早期的狩猎采集者的场外燃烧目前不妥协的解释问题，相比之下，燃烧的做法，最近的狩猎采集者有据可查。在这里，我们提出了一个系统的全球库存现存的燃烧的做法，包括燃烧的原因和环境设置的射击活动，并讨论他们的知名度在考古记录。这份清单以人种志和历史文献为基础。在历史上，场外火灾被用于各种目的，不分年龄和性别，对生产者有很大的优势。虽然燃烧的原因因人而异，但从长远来看，许多狩猎采集者的燃烧实践创造了比自然发生的更多马赛克类型的环境。狩猎采集者燃烧活动的历史可见性与当代考古记录中这种做法的相对隐蔽性形成对比，突出了分析过去使用火的困难。根据其民族学的重要性，我们认为，不同的场外火的使用是一样古老的火的经常使用。新的多代理数据，以及采样序列，在当地规模的分析，需要测试这一假设。
Archaeological indications for off-site burning by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherers present intransigent interpretive problems; by contrast, burning practices by recent hunter-gatherers are well documented. Here, we present a systematic global inventory of extant burning practices—including the reasons for burning and the environmental setting of firing activities—and also discuss their visibility in the archaeological record. This inventory is based on ethnographic and historical texts. In historical times, off-site fire was used for a wide range of purposes, irrespective of age and gender, with significant advantages for its producers. While the reasons given for burning can vary between individuals, in the longer term, many hunter-gatherer firing practices created more mosaic types of environments than would have occurred naturally. The historical visibility of hunter-gatherer burning activities contrasts with the relative invisibility of such practices in the contemporary archaeological record, highlighting the difficulty of analyzing past use of fire. On the basis of its ethnographic importance, we suggest that diverse off-site fire use is as old as the regular use of fire. New multiproxy data from well-sampled sequences, analyzed at a local scale, is needed to test this hypothesis.
影响因子：
2.8
作者：
Ascough, Philippa L.;Bird, Michael I.;Le Manquais, Katherine
通讯作者：
Le Manquais, Katherine