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>purposeful burns have been used by Indigenous people to keep forests and wildland healthy for millenia. Is there any evidence of this? I mean, I know that th
by itsoktocry 3y ago
>purposeful burns have been used by Indigenous people to keep forests and wildland healthy for millenia.
Is there any evidence of this? I mean, I know that the indigenous people did so to try to contain fires, because wildfires have been an issue for millions of years. But is there any evidence it was "more successful" historically? I'm not a huge believer that ancient cultures had these things figured out.
- pixl97 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire_in_ecosystems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire_in... I'll let you go into the further reading section for more information.
- throwaway829 3y agoNo native writing system was known among North American Indians at the time of first European contact. Please explain the type of evidence you could gather that would tell you American Indians thought intentional burning was a good idea and part of their planned forest management. From what I'm reading on your link the evidence is evidence of fires burning things down, thus the Indians had an advanced forest management system in place.
- pixl97 3y agoInstead of being argumentative about this, look where we actually have documentation, which is aboriginal burns in the AU. It turns out that people that lived in fire country for hundreds/thousands of years built up practices of burning when fires would remain calm rather than explode into conflagrations. "Advanced" is relative in this sense. Between this and natural fires the landscape had a patchwork quality that acted as natural fire breaks.