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‘Like a bomb has gone off’: Historical people might have set megafires that turned Southern California into an uninhabitable ‘wasteland’ for 1,000 years

Ice-age people might have set megafires in what’s now Southern California, making the area uninhabitable for a thousand years, new analysis suggests.

These large wildfires might have been a serious contributor to the extinction of megafauna within the space, fossils from the La Brea tar pits recommend. The findings have been revealed Aug. 18 within the journal Science.

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