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Land-clearance method
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slash-and-burn
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Slash-and-burn agriculture , or fire–fallow cultivation , is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden . (Preparing fields by deforestation is called assarting .) In subsistence ...
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a. (alternative spelling of slash and burn English)
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In their subsistence modes, Polynesians ranged from the hunter-gatherers of the Chathams, through slash-and-burn farmers, to practitioners of intensive food production living at some of the highest population densities of any human societies.
Obviously, crowd diseases could not sustain themselves in small bands of hunter-gatherers and slash-and-burn farmers.
Lowland New Guineans on the seacoast and rivers are villagers depending heavily on fish, while those on dry ground away from the coast and rivers subsist at low densities by slash-and-burn agriculture based on bananas and yams, supplemented by hunting and gathering.