In 2023 a research group from Aarhus University in Denmark found that light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe's ...

The team looked to oak, hazel, and yew as "detectives" of ancient forest life ... a leading role in maintaining open and semi-open landscapes. Yew's sensitivity to fire highlights this, as ...

Large herbivores as nature's landscape architects The researchers ... struggled to thrive in fire-prone systems yet persisted in ancient woodlands where herbivores likely kept forests dynamic ...

Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA As airborne lidar surveys reveal a growing sample of urbanised ...

Lidar technology is part of a revolution in documenting ancient landscapes through remote sensing. Although the method has been known for half a century, it has become more readily accessible for ...

Over 41,000 years ago, Tasmania's first human inhabitants, the Aboriginal Tasmanians, utilized fire to manage and modify ...

LiDAR, or light detection and ranging, is a remote sensing technique that can reveal hidden archaeological features in a landscape. The study supports the notion of a "populous and urban ancient Maya ...