'Like a bomb has gone off': Ancient humans may have set megafires that turned Southern California into an uninhabitable 'wasteland' for 1,000 years

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'Like a bomb has gone off': Ancient humans may have set megafires that turned Southern California into an uninhabitable 'wasteland' for 1,000 years (www.livescience.com)

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Why would humans start mega fires? How would they survive themselves?

Sounds like prehistoric jewry to me.

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