A dive into the deep past reveals Indigenous burning helped suppress bushfires 10,000 years ago
- Written by: Alan N Williams, Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
Joseph Lycett, Aborigines using fire to hunt kangaroo (c.1817)National Library of AustraliaIndigenous Australians have conducted cultural burning for at least ten millenia and the practice helped reduce bushfire risk in the past, our new research shows.
The study provides more evidence of the very long history of cultural burning in southeast...
