Plain Facts: Tasmania under Aboriginal Management
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2008
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Gammage, William
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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Almost all researchers now accept that Australia's Aborigines were managing their country with the broad-scale use of fire when Europeans arrived. In respect to Tasmania, this article goes further, arguing that fire was not merely broad-scale, but applied variably and precisely, to make, then connect, a complex range of useful ecosystems. The article also argues that Aboriginal land management must be seen in cultural as well as ecological terms.
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Keywords: cultural tradition; ecosystem management; indigenous population; land management; Australasia; Australia; Tasmania Aborigines; Environment; Land management at contact; Tasmania
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Landscape Research
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