Burning the land: An ethnographic study of off-site fire use by current and historically documented foragers and implications for the interpretation of past fire practices in the landscape
Current Anthropology • Vol/Iss. 56(3) • University of Chicago Press • • Published In • Pages: 299-326 •
By Scherjon, Fulco, Bakels, Corrie, MacDonald, Katharine, Roebroeks, Wil
Hypothesis
"Off-site fire use by hunter-gatherers and other people practicing traditional subsistence strategies is omnipresent, carried out by males, females, and children and by individuals and groups of all sizes"(311).
Note
"People use fire as a tool off-site for a range of activities, largely irrespective of gender and age"(311). Note: These are descriptive generalizations.
| Test Name | Support | Significance | Coefficient | Tail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |