The first evidence of controlled use of fire by prehistoric humans during the Middle Paleolithic phase from the Indian subcontinent

The major lightning regions and associated casualties over India

(2020) Pramod Kumar Yadava et al.   NATURAL HAZARDS

Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago

(2020) Chris Clarkson et al.   Nature Communications

A late-Holocene record of coastal wetland development and fire regimes in tropical northern Australia

(2020) Lydia Mackenzie et al.   HOLOCENE

Late Pleistocene fire in the Ili Basin, Central Asia, and its potential links to paleoclimate change and human activities

(2020) Yunfa Miao et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Spatial heterogeneity in the relationship between precipitation and carbon isotopic discrimination in C3 plants: Inferences from a global compilation

(2019) Sayak Basu et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Reconstructing past fire temperatures from ancient charcoal material

(2019) W.D. Gosling et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Macro-charcoal accumulation in floodplain wetlands: Problems and prospects for reconstruction of fire regimes and environmental conditions

(2019) Bradley P. Graves et al.   PLoS One

Multi-proxy evidence of Late Quaternary climate and vegetational history of north-central India: Implication for the Paleolithic to Neolithic phases

(2019) Deepak Kumar Jha et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Fire and brief human occupations in Iberia during MIS 4: Evidence from Abric del Pastor (Alcoy, Spain)

(2019) Carolina Mallol et al.   Scientific Reports

When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?

(2018) James F. O’Connell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A usage-based size classification scheme for sedimentary charcoal

(2018) Richard S Vachula   HOLOCENE

Microlithic, faunal, floral and isotopic data from an archaeological site 14C dated to LGM in the eastern state of Odisha, India

(2018) Rajeev Patnaik et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Effect of pedogenesis on the stable isotopic composition of calcretes and n ‐alkanes: Implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

(2018) Vijayananda Sarangi et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Initial micromorphological results from Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia): Site formation processes and hominin activities at the type locality of Homo floresiensis

(2017) Mike W. Morley et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Evolution of C 4 plants and controlling factors: Insight from n -alkane isotopic values of NW Indian Siwalik paleosols

(2017) Sambit Ghosh et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Mid-late Holocene vegetation response to climatic drivers and biotic disturbances in the Banni grasslands of western India

(2017) Anusree A.S. Pillai et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The discovery of fire by humans: a long and convoluted process

(2016) J. A. J. Gowlett   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The principles, procedures and pitfalls in identifying archaeological and historical wood samples

(2015) Caroline R. Cartwright   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Carbon isotopic ratios of modern C 3 –C 4 plants from the Gangetic Plain, India and its implications to paleovegetational reconstruction

(2015) Sayak Basu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Reconstruction of fire regimes through integrated paleoecological proxy data and ecological modeling

(2015) Virginia Iglesias et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Regional paleofire regimes affected by non-uniform climate, vegetation and human drivers

(2015) Olivier Blarquez et al.   Scientific Reports

Contrasting long-term records of biomass burning in wet and dry savannas of equatorial East Africa

(2014) Daniele Colombaroli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Generativity, hierarchical action and recursion in the technology of the Acheulean to Middle Palaeolithic transition: A perspective from Patpara, the Son Valley, India

(2013) C. Shipton et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene

(2013) Nicole Boivin et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Smoldering Combustion and Ground Fires: Ecological Effects and Multi-Scale Significance

(2013) Adam C. Watts et al.   Fire Ecology

Archaeology of fire: Methodological aspects of reconstructing fire history of prehistoric archaeological sites

(2012) Nira Alperson-Afil   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Large carnivores as taphonomic agents of space modification: an experimental approach with archaeological implications

(2012) Edgard Camarós et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa

(2012) F. Berna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The dispersal of Homo sapiens across southern Asia: how early, how often, how complex?

(2012) Robin Dennell et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Peak detection in sediment–charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations

(2010) Philip E. Higuera et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Paleosol charcoal: Reconstructing vegetation history in relation to agro-pastoral activities since the Neolithic. A case study in the Eastern French Pyrenees

(2010) Marie-Claude Bal et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Intensification of monsoon, microclimate and asynchronous C4 appearance: Isotopic evidence from the Indian Siwalik sediments

(2010) Prasanta Sanyal et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Charcoal recognition, taphonomy and uses in palaeoenvironmental analysis

(2010) Andrew C. Scott   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Testing the Hypothesis of Fire Use for Ecosystem Management by Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic Modern Human Populations

(2010) Anne-Laure Daniau et al.   PLoS One

The earliest evidence of hearths in Southern Europe: The case of Bolomor Cave (Valencia, Spain)

(2010) Josep Fernández Peris et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Quantitative paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction using paleosols

(2009) Nathan D. Sheldon et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Anthracology and taphonomy, from wood gathering to charcoal analysis. A review of the taphonomic processes modifying charcoal assemblages, in archaeological contexts

(2009) Isabelle Théry-Parisot et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Reconstructing past fire regimes: methods, applications, and relevance to fire management and conservation

(2009) Marco Conedera et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans

(2009) K. S. Brown et al.   SCIENCE

Climate controls on the variability of fires in the tropics and subtropics

(2008) Guido R. van der Werf et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Quaternary fluvial and eolian deposits on the Belan river, India: paleoclimatic setting of Paleolithic to Neolithic archeological sites over the past 85,000 years

(2007) M.R. Gibling et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS