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Would be interesting if the myth of Dragons breathing fire was because we used fire to kill the largest/scariest megafauna.

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We probably used fire to cook them with, and probably cause a lot of accidental fires in the process ;) Also bare in mind that except for africa those megafauna would have been relatively tame and way too unsuspecting of meat eating humans.

There's a lot of theorizing that early sapiens intentionally set fires to clear thick, impassable forests and kill game in the process. The cleared areas would make post-fire hunting easier as well.

This is still practiced to an extent by the Aboriginal Australians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fire_(Noongar_fire_type)

> thick impassable forests

Trad burning in Australia has largely been to cool burn undergrowth in the forest areas (relatively small land area) and to patch burn open grass lands (majority of area)

eg: https://youtu.be/wZL5rITqpwU?t=208

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