Charcoal Analysis: Methodological Approaches, Palaeoecological Results, and Wood Uses: Proceedings of the Second International Meeting of Anthracology, Paris, September 2000

These thirty-eight papers, from the Second International Meeting of Anthrocology held in Paris in 2000, include both theoretical discussions of the methodologies involved in current charcoal analysis and a large number of case studies which examine types of environments and wood use. The papers are divided into the following sections: statistics, taphonomy and processing of data, new applications, man-plant relationships in the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene, multi-disciplinary botanical ap...