Angela
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Color me a little bit skeptical about this.
See:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161201092823.htm
"[FONT="]Large-scale forest fires started by prehistoric hunter-gatherers are probably the reason why Europe is not more densely forested. The finding -- by an international team, including climate researcher Professor Jed Kaplan of the University of Lausanne and archaeologist Professor Jan Kolen of Leiden University -- was published Nov. 30 in the journal [/FONT]PLOS ONE[FONT="]."
This is the link to the actual paper:
Jed O Kaplan et al: [/FONT]http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166726
See:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161201092823.htm
"[FONT="]Large-scale forest fires started by prehistoric hunter-gatherers are probably the reason why Europe is not more densely forested. The finding -- by an international team, including climate researcher Professor Jed Kaplan of the University of Lausanne and archaeologist Professor Jan Kolen of Leiden University -- was published Nov. 30 in the journal [/FONT]PLOS ONE[FONT="]."
This is the link to the actual paper:
Jed O Kaplan et al: [/FONT]http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166726