Forêts et sociétés en Languedoc (Néolithique final' Antiquité tardive) L'anthracologie, méthode et paléoécologie

• Main Author: Chabal, Lucie (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Paris Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme 1997
• Series: Documents d'archéologie française
• Subjects: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; écologie; Protohistoire; bois; Préhistoire; paléobotanique; charbon de bois; combustible; chênaie
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Besides identifying plants used by men, charcoal analysis may also reconstruct the history of forests, based on the study of charcoal from domestic uses. The reliability of this discipline depends on the definition of rigourous methods, from the archaeological dig to the palaeoenvironmental interpre...