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You can't use words like "always" - large-scale habitation of California isn't even a century old.
by newaccount2021 5y ago
You can't use words like "always" - large-scale habitation of California isn't even a century old.
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- lazide 5y agoGoing through a drought doesn’t require habitation? And if a drought exists or not says nothing about demand on the water that arrives, just how much water arrives. Tree ring records in north America go back approx 12k years. Here is a study analyzing back to 101 b.c. In California specifically [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00193528 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00193528] The Spanish also started to colonize California (and keep records) in 1770ish, well before the prior wet spell started in 1850 (and ended in the 60’s ish)