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Most of the literature attributes the walls to early settlers and colonists. The vast amount of walls especially in places that were never settled makes this hy
by foxhop 8y ago
Most of the literature attributes the walls to early settlers and colonists. The vast amount of walls especially in places that were never settled makes this hypothesis wrong and outright misleading. Some walls were created by colonists but you would need millions and millions to make _all_ the walls in this region with in a time span of 150-300 years.
It's simply impossible for the farmers to have built all the walls, even if thats all they did was build walls all day every day for generations.
The early colonists were sustenance farmers and there are no journals or diaries or documents which talk about them building walls.
- wirrbel 8y agoI don't write that much about making excel spreadsheets. I'd assume that when they stumbled over a rock they put it on the side of their field, arranging it to a wall. They might have just wrote down "field work" in diaries (if they had the time to write).
- foxhop 8y agoYou don't write about spreadsheets, but if we look at the library or the internet we can see that at least one person writes about spreadsheets. There is not one piece of written evidence that the colonists created all the walls. There is not one piece of written evidence that the native Americans built the walls. We don't know who built the walls.
- sushisushisushi 8y agoYou're grossly exaggerating the effort involved in moving stones from soil you've tilled and laying them in a straight line across a field. This isn't masonry. It's literally a pile of rocks.