Post #1901855
2026-04-28 15:02 UTC
@moonrabbit golly! One has to be much more skilled at reading the landscape to see the history of human habitation of indigenous peoples here. Later Europeans left stone walls through the forests. Most of the US has been lightly tread on by people, though still quite altered. Our forests here are mostly 2nd or 3rd growth, though still lush (at least in eastern CT). But I’m not going to stumble on a medieval ruin anytime soon.
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@moonrabbit@sunny.garden 2026-04-28 15:06
@IcooIey apart from the standing stone, it's pretty much all the history of colonisers, which is always far easier to see that the history of (more) native peoples. and there are long periods where there's not much material evidence at all, or at least not much that's so visible. sometimes it's just parch marks if you're lucky! there is an iron age hillfort up above it all which is more what you could call indigenous, but that's the sort of thing that yes: one doesn't stumble onto. or rather: one does but might not know it!