Fire is an integral part of almost all ecosystems on Earth and an important factor in shaping our surroundings. Based on pedoanthracological research, we have reconstructed part of the past landscape and the paleoenvironmental context in an area that was populated by the Aguada Culture around 1000 CE. Pedoanthracology gives us the opportunity to recreate past fire events, including both natural fires such as wildland fires and fire produced by human activity. To understand past fire regimes and to be able to analyze the past archaeological landscape and the paleoenvironmental scenario, we focused our study on the past fire events in the Balcosna Valley, Catamarca Province, North-western Argentina, using microcharcoals extracted from sediments sampled from eight different locations in the area with a sediment corer. In total, 91 samples from the eight stations were analyzed, indicating that the Balcosna Valley was frequently affected by regular fire events in the past. These events, in turn, must have affected the people living in the area in various ways, thus creating a particular interaction between humans and fire.

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火灾生态，过去的景观和人与人之间的互动：古人类学，巴尔科斯纳山谷，卡塔马卡，阿根廷西北部的贡献

火几乎是地球上所有生态系统的组成部分，并且是塑造我们周围环境的重要因素。基于古人类学研究，我们在公元1000年左右的阿瓜达文化所居住的地区重建了部分过去的景观和古环境。Pedoanthracology给我们提供了重现过去火灾的机会，包括自然火灾（例如荒野火灾）和人为活动产生的火灾。为了了解过去的火灾状况并能够分析过去的考古景观和古环境场景，我们使用从八种样本中提取的沉积物提取的微炭，重点研究了阿根廷西北部卡塔马卡省巴尔科斯纳山谷的过去火灾事件。使用沉积物去核剂的区域中的不同位置。总共，对来自八个气象站的91个样本进行了分析，表明巴尔科斯纳山谷过去经常受到定期火灾的影响。反过来，这些事件一定以各种方式影响了居住在该地区的人们，从而在人与火之间产生了特殊的相互作用。