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In a continuous, perfectly stratified sedimentary sequence which was discovered under a large sandstone overhang in northern Bohemia, Czech Republic, we analysed multiple biological remains, archaeological features and artefacts. This multi-proxy record has allowed us to examine the interactions between woodland and humans in a permanently wooded environment throughout almost the entire Holocene. We paid most attention to massive finds of dung pellets from sheep, goats or pigs and bedding layers which show that the site was used as a pen and shelter for livestock which grazed in the woods. Our results imply that such practices have occurred since the Neolithic, but the most robust evidence of these is for the Iron Age and early Middle Ages. Detailed analyses of the dung indicate woodland grazing and foddering with branches, acorns, beechnuts and crop processing remains. In addition, the wide palaeoenvironmental range of this detailed investigation provides evidence of the impact of wood pasturing on ecological functions, taxon composition and diversity of the local woodland ecosystem in the Holocene.

Inuit across the Arctic regions have for generations echoed a wish for a greater involvement in research and have voiced the need for direct partnerships that include Indigenous perspectives. As a consequence, researchers are becoming increasingly aware that studying other people’s past and heritage is not an inherent academic right but rather involves developing close Indigenous partnerships. Accordingly, partnership research frameworks are now being recognized as essential foundations to decolonize research practices in the Arctic, as vocalized by Inuit communities. In this paper, Inughuit community members share their personal and shared thoughts and reflections and present how they envision future partnership research approaches, how they can determine the objectives of partnered research, and what archaeology can ultimately contribute in a changing Arctic.

Abstrakti Issittumi nunat immikkoortuini Inuit ilisimatusarnermut peqataatinneqarnerunissamik kinguaariit ingerlaneranni arlaleriarlutik kissaateqartarsimapput nunallu inoqqaavisa isiginnittaasiannik peqataatitsilluni toqqaannartumik suleqatigiinnissamik pisariaqartitsineq oqariartuutigisarlugu. Tamatuma kingunerisaanik allanut qanga pisimasunik kingornussassaannillu misissuinerit ilisimatuussutsikkut pisinnaatitaaffiunnginnerat ilisimatusartunit eqqumaffigineqarnerujartulerpoq, aallaqqaataaniillu qanimut suleqatigiinnerit ineriartortinneqarnissaat ilaatinneqalerluni. Ilisimatusarnermik suleqatigiinnernut sinaakkutit Issittumi ilisimatusariaatsit nunasiaataajunnaarsarneqarnerannut pingaarutilimmik tunngaviunerat taamaammat akuerisaajartuinnarpoq, soorlu Inunnit tamanna oqariartuutigineqarsimasoq. Allaaserisami matumani Inughuit ilaasa namminneq ataatsimullu eqqarsaataat ilisaritippagut, siunissamilu suleqatigiilluni ilisimatusariaasissat qanoq takorloorneraat, suleqatigiilluni ilisimatusarnernut anguniagassat qanoq aalajangersinnaaneraat, kiisalu Issittumi allanngorartumi itsarnisarsiornerup qanoq ilanngussaqarsinnaanera saqqummiullutigu.

In this paper, I draw on postphenomenology and material engagement theory to consider the material and emergent character of sociality in Homo faber. I approach this through the context of the bow and arrow, which is a technology that has received recent attention in cognitive archeology as a proxy for assessing criteria that made early human cognition distinct from that of other hominins. Through an ethnographic case study, I scrutinize the forms of knowledge that are required to use the technology in the dynamic field of environmental practices that constitute the hunt. I demonstrate that the learning of the skill is a transformational process where beginners develop self and intentionality by attuning subjective capacities for sensory awareness and creative responsiveness. Through mutual participation, the bow and arrow aligns disposition and rapport among those whose life processes are shaped by the skill. As a mechanism of shared experience, the bow and arrow generates a community can together perceive and act creatively in an impermanent world. Through these observations, I argue that early human sociality was built not on a pre-evolved capacity for symbolic representation but on technical experience, and I consider important questions this raises about the nature of evolutionary processes at work in the development of communities through time.

Abstract Although the natural availability and quality of wood is variable across the Arctic, there is great continuity in how it was traditionally used. This article considers the value of wood to Arctic peoples and the criteria that would distinguish the utility of different pieces. The topic is explored in the case of kayak construction, one of the most complex carpentry tasks that can be inferred from many archaeological sites. Numerous types of kayaks were built in several periods by a variety of peoples using very different toolkits. Using both ethnographic and archaeological examples, it is shown that this technology everywhere shared several key stages of construction. Within these stages, specific carpentry tasks defined the criteria that all kayak builders used to select wood. By exploring the value of wood to Arctic peoples for carpentry, this article demonstrates the potential for understanding wood use through experimental archaeology.

Inuit kayaks are a hunting technology that requires a high degree of developed skill to operate. The practice involves special types of physical fitness, technical ability, social relationships and extensive environmental knowledge. Hunters must be able to work intuitively as a team, to recognize and react instantly to subtle environmental cues, and depend on instinctive physical capabilities that are committed to muscle memory. These requisite abilities can be developed only experientially. Kayak sports were a critical aspect of learning, and they provided simulative environments to practise and develop sub-sets of hunting skills. Through an examination of a weapon-throwing game, commonly represented at Arctic sites by stone features that are arranged to outline a kayak, this paper explores the didactic nature of sports and theorizes their value in the situated learning of skills for hunter-gatherer technologies.

Research Topic Authors submitting manuscripts to the Journal of Forestry are required to designate the research topic of their submission from among the following categories: economics, education communication, entomology pathology, fire, forest ecology, geospatial technologies, his- tory, human dimensions, international forestry, measure- ment, policy, recreation, silviculture, social sciences, soils hydrology, urban community forestry, utilization engineering, and wildlife management. Results and Discussion Table 1 lists the number of papers published within each topic area in each of the past 5 volume years of the Journal of Forestry. Since the number of articles pub- lished in each volume year varies, Figure 1 presents these results as percentages of the total amount of scientific con- tent presented in each volume year to normalize the results across the 5 years reviewed in this study.

Sometimes You Need to Step Backward to Take a Step Forward While our efforts to improve the scien- tific stature of the Journal have borne fruit- our \"impact\", measured as the average num- ber of times articles from the Journal have been cited in the previous two years, has more than doubled since 2004 (from 0.681 to 1.354)-as a scholarly journal, the Jour- nal of Forestry stands within an expanding field of competitors. Since joining SAF in 2004, the number of forestry publications tracked and ranked by the ever-important Journal Citation Reports has grown from 34 to 59 titles. [...]there will be some marginal postage savings through this fre- quency reduction, which we can redirect to- ward printing even more scientific content as submissions allow.] No less important a benefit of this frequency reduction is that with larger issue sizes holding a greater num- ber of articles, there is a much greater oppor- tunity of fulfilling the \"something for every- one within each issue\" pledge I made to our readers at the beginning of my tenure (Walls 2005) and reaffirmed by outgoing editor Keith Moser when he became solo editor-in- chief in 2009 (Moser 2009; see also Moser 2012).

This report re-examines the Morris Bay Kayak, which was discovered in Washington Land, Northwest Greenland in 1921. Kayaks rarely preserve archaeologically, and the find is especially significant because the closest Inuit group, the Inughuit, were thought to have lost the technology sometime before the nineteenth century. In this context, radiocarbon dating of caribou antler pieces from the kayak places the date of the assemblage as surprisingly recent. Through comparison with regional assemblages, we argue that the Morris Bay Kayak is representative of a locally developed tradition of kayaking that was practiced until shortly before the colonial period and that this has important implications for understanding the deeper history of Inughuit open-water hunting.