Original: Fire-stick farming is a term coined by Australian archaeologist Rhys Jones in 1969 to describe the practice of Indigenous Australians where fire was used regularly to burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area .
Simplified: Fire-stick farming are words used by Australian archaeologist Rhys Jones in 1969 . They describe the way that Indigenous Australians used fire regularly to burn the land .