Elizabeth A. Scharf

Prehistoric Human-environment Interactions: People, Fire, Climate and Vegetation on the Columbia Plateau, USA (British Archaeological Reports British Series) Elizabeth A. Scharf

This volume presents prehistoric records that span over a millennium to examine issues of human paleoecology on the Columbia Plateau of Washington State, USA. It quantifies past human population, compares relative inputs of humans, climate, fire, and vegetation using multivariate statistics examines relationships between variables when leads and lags of different lengths are introduced and identifies multicollinearity, allowing variables of no unique explanatory value to be eliminated.