摘要：: Anthracology theory and methods. 1. Theoretical considerations and perspectives.
This paper presents a discussion of the theoretical methodological premises on which anthracological studies
are presently based, with an emphasis on its application to the tropical vegetation. The major topics discussed
are the palaeoecological representativity of archaeological and pedological charcoal, species selection, use of
dead wood, carbonization, post-depositional processes, methods of charcoal analysis (ubiquity, weight or
fragments counting), and the perspectives offered by anthracological analyses in terms of palaeoenvironmental
and palaeoethnological information
关键词：anthracology, palaeoecology, species selection, carbonization, post-depositional processes.
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