Early Aboriginal communities used fire to clear and modify dense, wet forests for their own use, as indicated by a surge of charcoal accumulated in mud from 41,600 years ago.
Around 41,000 years ago, the first modern humans to arrive in Tasmania used fire to shape and manage the landscape, surpassing the earliest evidence yet for the same activity by more than 2,000 years.
The discovery,…
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