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Indigenous Australian fire-stick farming began at least 11,000 years ago

Analysis of a sediment core dating back 150,000 years showed that fire patterns in Australia changed with the rise of Indigenous people’s use of fire.
  1. Bianca Nogrady
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Indigenous Australians have been using fire to shape the country’s northern ecosystems for at least 11,000 years, according to charcoal preserved in the sediment of a sinkhole. The study was published on 11 March in Nature Geoscience1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00693-6

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  1. Bird, M. I. et al. Nature Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01388-3 (2024).

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