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I saw a big study of Mississippian culture shell middens and was surprised to see that the most common shell was turtle. There must have been a lot more turtles
by daodedickinson 7y ago
I saw a big study of Mississippian culture shell middens and was surprised to see that the most common shell was turtle. There must have been a lot more turtles back then in the midwest...
- mistrial9 7y agoyep - it is hard to miss something you have never seen. North America was teeming with life.. how would anyone know it now, living in car trips to stores and watching TV only ?
- daodedickinson 7y agoIt's still teeming with life for those who bother to go out in search of it. Yellowstone is overcrowded but it astonishes me how few visitors come to, say, Bridger-Teton National Forest (other than for that Great American Eclipse, during which the traffic began to evoke Times Square) and Couer d'Alene National Forest.