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by pixl97 1095 days ago
Instead 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.