Laurance May
Biographic Data
| ID | 4063396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurance May |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurance |
| FAMILY NAME | May |
| SIGNATURE | MAY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Archaeology and History La Trobe University Melbourne Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1914 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fire Histories and Rainforest Aboriginal Archaeology in the Wet Tropics Bioregion, North Queensland
Unlike the dominant Australian savanna‐sclerophyll vegetation, tropical rainforests do not burn easily. Any evidence of fire in Australian rainforests therefore invites explanations of its source. Analysis of 187 radiocarbon dates that include selected charcoal fragments from 23 soil pits and 7 archaeological sites from the Wet Tropics Bioregion (WTB) in far North Queensland, suggests a strong relationship between natural and cultural firing regi…
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Notices Of Archaeological Publications
Fire Histories and Rainforest Aboriginal Archaeology in the Wet Tropics Bioregion, North Queensland
Unlike the dominant Australian savanna‐sclerophyll vegetation, tropical rainforests do not burn easily. Any evidence of fire in Australian rainforests therefore invites explanations of its source. Analysis of 187 radiocarbon dates that include selected charcoal fragments from 23 soil pits and 7 archaeological sites from the Wet Tropics Bioregion (WTB) in far North Queensland, suggests a strong relationship between natural and cultural firing regi…
Archaeological Research and Protection (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (1 works) · History (1 works) · History (1 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (1 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (1 works)