That looks like a very thin carbon band, looks like someone burning their fields and not burning a forest.
If this was a forest, there should be buried roots and all kinds of debris under the burn line. Plus there would be lots of decomposition below the burn line from previous decomposition as part of the forest.
If this picture is related to this study, I think they are blowing smoke up our skirts.
Another story of the evil white men.
Evil white man = Maori?
Maybe I am miss-reading it, but thought what I am reading was that they both attacked the forests.
Still looks questionable in the picture.
I was on a dig when I was in school and we looked at where the forest was burned in Ohio when settlers came there and we also compared where there were fields. They don’t look the same.
This one looks like a field burn. Maybe the type of trees there cause it to look a lot different than North America, so maybe there is another reason. Looks suspicious to me.
Maori are more of a chocolate brown color.
Every body no matter what their color has always used fire to clear land for agriculture because that is the most efficient way to do it and it releases the nutrients that were tied up in the vegetation.
What gets the enviros all tied up in a knot is that they hate civilization. They want to undo the industrial revolution, the iron age, the bronze age, the agricultural revolution and any other advancement that has made human life better.
They want us to live as the animals they believe we are (well not them of course being the elite overlords they are, just everyone else).