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"Pre-Columbian North American Indians worked to maximize deer habitats, in order to improve their hunting prospects. Deer inhabit the interface between forest and meadow. The Indians maximised this habitat by deliberately setting fires from time to time to clear out forests"

These in the south were already farming 11K years ago.

Rainforest Researchers Hit Paydirt(Farming 11K Years Ago In South America)

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And in Ecuador 10-12,000 years ago.

An Origin Of New Word Agriculture In Coastal Ecuador (12,000 BP)