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Fires in the Mountains: forest fires, charcoal, and lumber at Catoctin Furnace (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Retrospective: 50 Years Of Research And Changing Narratives At Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent studies of fire history and dendroecology, charcoal production, and vernacular architecture around Catoctin Furnace, correlated with new palaeobotanical analysis and analysis of company store ledgers, have provided unprecedented information about the ecological history of the...