The very nature of the initial slash-and-burn agriculture encouraged a further dependence on agriculture and the aggregation of people into denser settlements.

最初的刀耕火种式农业的本质鼓励人们进一步依赖农业，并促使人们聚集到人口更密集的居住区。

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Pollen and ash remains show that 2000 years ago the Mayans were growing maize with slash-and-burn agriculture in some areas that over the course of later centuries became permanently flooded wetlands.

从遗留的花粉和草木灰可看出距今2000年前生活在那里的玛雅人还在那里种植玉米，虽然种植方式还处在刀耕火种的原始方式，但那里毕竟还有土地。可是在随后的几百年里，这片土地已成了永久性的洪涝之地。

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Villages formed on the land cleared by the slash and burn agriculture practiced by small social groups.

在社会小群体实行刀耕火种的的农业实践的土地上，村庄形成了。

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They were not quite hunter-gatherers besides hunting and foraging, they also practised slash-and-burn agriculture but they did live in self-sufficient villages, and there was little disparity of income between villagers.

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Of the four global regions inhabited by primates, the worst hit is Madagascar, where loss of habitat to traditional slash-and-burn agriculture has left some lemur species, such as Perrier's sifaka, stranded in tiny areas of forest.

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