Potatoes? The potatoes we grow in our garden only need a soil depth of around 8 to 10 inches. Those terraces seem somewhat sturdy and needlessly deep to grow potatoes...interesting is the soil in the terraces is supposedly man 'made' in layers, the bottom layer contains stones and pebbles to facilitate drainage...
the width of the terraces is also surprising...
and how many people did it take to contour the hillsides, let alone eat all those potatoes? (And squash, and peppers and what-ever else they grew there?)
They didn't even have donkeys to carry the produce to market, did they?
You done been an exceptionally evil person.
This thread and its pic reminded me of some terraces carved into nearly vertical rocky mountainsides by Hittites way back in the day. So, I went looking for the pictures just to see if there were any similarities.
Never found the pics. My google-fu wasn’t up to snuff. But!!!
I did wander into the Aegean Apocalypse and the following Greek Dark Age. The Sea People that ravaged the Med AO at that period.
Who were the Sea People? Who were the Pelasgii? Where did the Hittites come from? Why’d they pick such a barren place to settle? What the heck traumatized them so badly that they’d make their laws and culture harsh enough to make the Spartans seem like sissies? Where the heck did they go when they abandoned their capital (some 40k peoples?)
It’s now 5:45 AM and I just can’t stop inter-netting on these silly questions.
Never mind the rest, such as who were the Danaan Greeks? Where’d they come from? Are they related to the Tuatha de Danaan of Irish myth? Then there’s the Dorics. Same stuff. Where’d they come from? Herotodus seems to say that the Hellenes were were Pelasgii and the Dorics were Hellenes. Shouldn’t that be the other way around? Oh, and I found references to letters written back in this period that indicate that there were Greeks that believed they were Israelites that wandered off prior to the Isaelites migrating into Egypt.
And then back to who the heck were the Sea People? what role did the Sardinians play in all that?
I hate it when people do this to me. Trigger a solid manic that turns obsessive. It. Is. All. Your. Fault!!
Other than that, I’m having a lot of fun with this stuff. Too bad I don’t know enough to sort through the crap and find myself some nuggets that are reliable info.
