Is anyone aware of any formalised/published attempts to utilise Human Behavioural Ecology (HBE) models to assess wood selection using both taxa identification and quantification in conjunction with dendroanthracological results? Marston 2009 seems to be the only published attempt to explicitly use HBE and wood charcoal data anyway. Would love to know if people have seen more out there that my research to date has missed.
Dear Nathan,
i do not know if either this article or its literature is helpful, but have a look:
Thery I., Gril J., Vernet J.L., Meignen L., Maury J. (1995) First use of coal. Nature, 373, 09 Feb 1995, 480-481.
Best regards, Thomas
Hi Nathan
there is actually an interesting paper on the selective exploitation of specific landscapes for firewood in the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3 in Switzerland.
Dufraisse, A., Leutzinger, U., 2009. La collecte du bois de feu dans le village néolithique d’Arbon-Bleiche 3 (lac de Constance, Suisse) : gestion du bois et déterminismes, Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 106, 785-802.
This apparently mirrors the internal subdivision of this short lived settlement and highlights the social and economic diversity within an outwardly uniform archeological community. Addtional information is available in
Röder, B., Doppler, T., Pichler, S., Pollmann, B., Jacomet, S., Schibler, J., 2013. Beyond the settlement grid: investigating social differences through archeobiology in waterlogged sites, Journal of Neolithic Archaeology 2. doi 10.12766/jna.2013.002
Sandra
check out Jennifer Deo's dissertation out of University of Washington and any related pubs... should be searchable online. she did her work in Alaska.
Hi Sandra, Ilkka, and Jennifer
Thank you all very much for these suggestions. Most helpful!
Regards Nathan
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