Posted on 03/21/2011 9:45:31 AM PDT by decimon
Native Americans Significantly Modified American Landscape...Prior...Arrival...Europeans
But only to improve it for the better, and in ways that were spiritually respectful of Mother Nature, unlike the Evil Europeans. ;-)
While researching a novel occurring in 1799 in the Kentucky Tennessee area, I discovered that an area call the Barrens was a routinely burned prairie that the Indians maintained as a buffalo common. Later I found out that earlier, the Shenandoah Valley had also surved as a burning maintained buffalo common as well. Indians also used controlled burns to clean the underbrush out in old forests.
Have you read ‘1491’? It is a book detailing what the Western Hemisphere was like before Columbus.
Very interesting read, particularly about the extensive native infrastructure existing in the Amazon basin.
Posted here nine years ago.
The noble savage would never harm Gaia.
I’ll check out 1491.
Yesterday blam, my parallel reading led me down your way.
To Poverty Point, in Louisiana I think, just west of the state line. I read the Wiki piece and saw numerous images on the web.
It is apparently not only very old, but massive.
So much to read...... there is no end
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