Fire stick farming also known as cultural burning and cool burning is the practice of indigenous australians regularly using fire to burn vegetation.
What is aboriginal fire sticks used for.
The hand drill used across the northern and coastal regions.
By burning the leaves of boreen specifically the acacia they perform a cleansing ceremony.
The associated loss of browsing and grazing animals resulted in savannah changing into dry forest.
They describe the way that indigenous australians used fire regularly to burn the land.
This helped hunting by herding the animals into particular areas and also caused new grass to grow which attracted more animals.
Aboriginal use of fire numbuk yabbun are very important to aboriginal culture.
This involved two small sticks the lower one with an end split and wedged apart allowing the hot ember to fall through the gap.
In the resultant sclerophyll forests fire stick farming maintained an open canopy and allowed germination of understorey plants necessary for increasing the carrying capaci.
Traditional message sticks were made and crafted from wood and were generally small and easy to carry between 10 and 30 cm.
Firesticks alliance indigenous corporation is an indigenous led network and aims to re invigorate the use of cultural burning by facilitating cultural learning pathways to fire and land management.
At the time of european contact australian aborigines made fire using four methods.
Fire stick farming are words used by australian archaeologist rhys jones in 1969.
Aboriginal australians pre date the extinction of the australian megafauna.
It is an initiative for indigenous and non indigenous people to look after country share their experiences and collectively explore ways to achieve their goals.