Indigenous land management

 
Graeber / Wengrow 150: "What to a settler's eye seemed savage, untouched wilderness usually turns out to be landscapes actively managed by indigenous populations for thousands of years through controlled burning, weeding, coppicing, fertilizing and pruning, terracing estuarine plots to extend the habitat of particular wild flora, building clam gardens in intertidal zones to enhance the reproduction of shellfish, creating weirs to catch salmon, bass, and sturgeon, and so on"
 
"In parts of Austrailia, these indigenous techniques of land management were such that, according to one recent study, we should stop speaking of 'foraging' altogether, and refer instead to a different sort of farming"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #landscape, #indigenous_peoples

> created September 19, 2024 at 11:34:09 AM


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