Pollen and tree survey map. Credit: Marc Abrams, Penn State
To an uneducated type like me, what’s reported in that article sounds like sense making.
Humans are rather known for managing the area around themselves to suit their needs. We see it in Central and South America with the slash burning to clear land for crops, and iirc, it used to be a practice in Australia by the Aborigines to keep the ecosystem healthy.
And, we see the attempt at it with our modern leftists, but as usual, everything they touch, they turn to s**t.
The idea of the peacenik indian in tune with nature is a bunch of hogwash. The Americas would be vastly different if it was actually uninhabited by the time of European colonization.
Careful...don’t want to get too close to noble savage myths.
Trees burned entire for little more than entertainment
Birch bark used as a torture device/process
human bones with “pot wear” on the end suggesting a ‘rendering ‘ process
brain tanned leather
more but it’s Friday.....
KYPD
Native Americans can do anything they want, since they are a protected class.
And Whitey will be blamed for it.
I wonder how much of this was learned behavior as in...
Lightning strike makes forest fire. Forest regrows after fire. Regrown forest better forest.
Fire makes better forest!
The article presents no evidence that the indians actually used fire for management. Without human meddling, lightning induced fires regularly clear out the understory and keep the forest healthy. I suspect that the indians simply allowed natural processes to keep the environment healthy. (Not that they could have controlled a raging forest fire.)
So, in addition to constantly being at war, raping their enemies wives and taking their enemies as slaves or torturing them enemies to death, Native Americans were wholesale burning forests. They must have been Republicans.
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My guess is dry conditions and lightning.
Or SUVs.
5.56mm
So will Elizabeth Warren become an outdoor arsonist?
didn’t we see somewhere that the massive burning of the North American East Coast forests contributed to the Little Ice Age in Europe?
