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Why Did Stopping Aboriginal Burning Change the Landscape? - The Colonial Misreading of the Australian Landscape | Sleepy Facts About History
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When the early nineteenth-century explorer Thomas Mitchell rode through eastern Australia, he described open, grassy woodlands that looked to his eye like an English park. He assumed he was passing through untouched wilderness. But the landscapes European colonists admired were not wild or accidental. They were the result of millennia of deliberate, knowledgeable burning by Aboriginal Australians. This episode examines the practice of cultural burning, explaining how hundreds of distinct…
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