Throughout history, people around the world have scarred, shaped, and used living trees for
cultural purposes. Because trees can live for centuries,“culturally modified trees”(CMTs) that …

Culturally modified trees (CMTs) provide unique insights into traditional knowledge and
uses of the forest ecosystems. In close relation to pre-industrial livestock herding in central …

The tradition to blaze trees to mark trails and boundaries is very old in northern Scandinavia.
The disappearance of culturally modified trees (ie trees with trail blazes) and changes in …

The authors present a unique long record of inner bark use by the Sami people of northern
Scandinavia extending back to 2800 BP. Consistent patterns with respect to the direction …

The importance of land use history and its impact on ecological systems has recently been
recognised, primarily because most'natural areas' have been found to have experienced …

The oak was especially important in the economies of preindustrial Europe. In many
European nations, however, oak stands declined sharply during the eighteenth and …

The Samis have been present in the Swedish boreal forest for a long time. Their land‐use
practices were dominant over vast tracts until the late nineteenth century, but little is known …

A multidisciplinary study of use by Sami people of Pinus sylvestris L.(Scots pine) inner bark
was performed in northern Sweden. We combined linguistic, historical and archaeological …

Most of the 15 chapters in this book are based on presentations given at the International
conference on advances in forest and woodland history, held at the University of Nottingham …

Almost all the boreal forests in the Scandinavian peninsula have been influenced by human
societies, and, therefore, natural, original forests are very rare. In this article, the interaction …