Sentence examples for firestick from inspiring English sources

The Aboriginal peoples exploited the land efficiently by "firestick farming," the use of fire to regulate and maintain plant and animal food sources.

Far from the "primitive" hunter-gatherers they are often cast as, Gammage showed that the original inhabitants of Australia employed a complex programme of "firestick farming" to systematically regulate plant growth and the movement of prey animals.

Dr. Jones suggested that Aboriginal "firestick farming," the burning the brush for food, fatally changed the ecology, causing the sudden death of Australia's megafauna, marsupials and reptiles whose remains are common but whose fate is mysterious.

"Give bop-teest to serpent friend, robe chief want you tootsweet, time earn all those bad-smelling firestick," a tribe member tells her.

That night, they walked away with five hundred firesticks.