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Mapping anthropogenic features plays a key role in understanding historic land use dynamics during the 17th to early 20th centuries, however previous studies have primarily used manual or semi-automated digitization methods, which are time consuming for broad-scale mapping. This study applies fully-automated deep convolutional neural networks (i.e., U-Net) with LiDAR derivatives to identify relict charcoal hearths (RCHs), a type of historical land use feature. Results show that slope, hillshade, and Visualization for Archaeological Topography (VAT) rasters work well in six localized test regions (spatial scale: &lt;1.5 km2, best F1 score: 95.5%), but also at broader extents at the town level (spatial scale: 493 km2, best F1 score: 86%). The model performed best in areas with deciduous forest and high slope terrain (e.g., &gt;15 degrees) (F1 score: 86.8%) compared to coniferous forest and low slope terrain (e.g., &lt;15 degrees) (F1 score: 70.1%). 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