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(continued from page 58) required a regular pattern of burning
on the order of every few years. This
with the environment,” says Lightfoot. indicates that there was some level
Studies of other peoples who also used of consistency in their management
fire for resource management suggest practices within the broader society.”
that the social organizations employed But Lightfoot and other members of
in these practices varied widely. On the team believe the practice was a
one end of the spectrum are the local one. “I don’t think coordination
aboriginal people of western Australia, of land management happened on
who set low-intensity fires to hunt bur- a regional scale,” says Cuthrell, “but
rowing animals. Requiring relatively rather on the scale of the tribe or even
little coordination among members of groups smaller than the tribe. Tribes
a tribe, in cases like these, fires were had small populations and small ter-
set primarily as a means of achieving ritories, so this coordination probably
an immediate goal: flushing out the happened on scales that most people
burrowing rodents. On the other end would think of as local.”
of the spectrum, setting large-scale The end result, though, was wide
fires would have been a community- reaching. “The whole area would have
level practice that would have taken a Redwood trees such as this one, which been a garden to them,” says Califor-
are well adapted to frequent fires,
great deal of coordination. nia State Parks archaeologist Mark
dominated wood samples from the valley.
“I think the Quiroste fall some- Hylkema, who is also participating
where in the middle,” says Lightfoot. over many decades or centuries, as in the ongoing project. By creat-
“Creating a coastal grassland habitat has been documented, would have ing patchworks of recently burned

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