Australia has had Aboriginal people living here for 60,000 to 80,000 years, and while Europeans at first thought there was no agriculture [because racism, and also because it didn't look like the agriculture they were used to, with ploughs and fences]
scientists have now found that a repeated cycle of deliberately setting fires in order to encourage seed-bearing grasses that could be ground up into flour for food massively changed the landscape on a widespread scale
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Date: 2022-02-13 01:54 am (UTC)scientists have now found that a repeated cycle of deliberately setting fires in order to encourage seed-bearing grasses that could be ground up into flour for food massively changed the landscape on a widespread scale