The establishment of Tasmanian Palawa/Pakana communities ~40 thousand years ago (ka) was achieved by the earliest and farthest human migrations from Africa and necessitated migration into high-latitude Southern Hemisphere environments. The scarcity of high-resolution paleoecological records during this period, however, limits our understanding of the environmental effects of this pivotal event, particularly the importance of using fire as a tool for habitat modification. We use two paleoecological records from the Bass Strait islands to identify the initiation of anthropogenic landscape transformation associated with ancestral Palawa/Pakana land use. People were living on the Tasmanian/Lutruwitan peninsula by ~41.6 ka using fire to penetrate and manipulate forests, an approach possibly used in the first migrations across the last glacial landscape of Sahul.

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41,600 年前，景观焚烧促进了原住民迁移到 Lutruwita/Tasmania


塔斯马尼亚帕拉瓦/帕卡纳社区的建立 ~4 万年前 （ka） 是通过人类从非洲迁徙最早和最远的实现的，并且需要迁移到高纬度的南半球环境。然而，这一时期高分辨率古生态记录的稀缺限制了我们对这一关键事件对环境影响的理解，特别是利用火作为改变栖息地的工具的重要性。我们使用来自巴斯海峡群岛的两条古生态记录来确定与祖先 Palawa/Pakana 土地利用相关的人为景观转变的开始。人们生活在塔斯马尼亚/卢特鲁维坦半岛上 ~41.6 ka 使用火渗透和操纵森林，这种方法可能用于穿越萨胡尔最后冰川景观的第一次迁移。