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The other fire is covert, because it burns lithic landscapes.

Modern societies are burning lithic landscapes - once-living biomass now fossilized into coal, gas and oil - which is aggravating the burning of living landscapes.

"Society reorganized itself around fossil fuels, adapting to the combustion of lithic landscapes and ignoring the fire latent in living ones," he writes.

Of those five, officials said, one had a “lithic scatter” — remnants of stone tools and other culturally relevant artifacts.

"The trace fossil is associated with megafauna bones, plant material and unifacial lithic tools," the study's abstract adds.