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Deforestation through unsustainable wood harvesting likely occurred two thousand years ago by Ancestral Puebloans in Chaco Canyon, USA

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Pueblo Bonito

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Deforestation through unsustainable wood harvesting likely occurred two thousand years ago by Ancestral Puebloans in Chaco Canyon, USA

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Article Title: Ecosystem impacts by the Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA

Author Countries: USA

Funding: Funding was provided by the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center (https://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/sociology/undergrad/undergradfunding/taft-res-funding.html) (V.S.), the University of Cincinnati Research Council (https://www.uc.edu/) (V.S., N.D., L.O. and K.T.) and the University of Virginia (https://www.virginia.edu) (S.P.). The funders had no role in the study, design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258369   
 


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