Abstract: 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 survive today are a biological archive that can tell us much about the historic relationships between people and forests. Indeed, CMTs constitute a unique and important source of information about the way different groups conceived of their place in nature. The boreal Scandinavian forest is one of the great remaining CMT archives. Ancient ethnic groups in Sca...
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