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Is this satire? The construction of New England's rock walls is well documented and occurred primarily between 1700ish (starting date varies greatly based on l
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Is this satire? The construction of New England's rock walls is well documented and occurred primarily between 1700ish (starting date varies greatly based on location) and 1840ish (when it became substantially less economically useful to clear land to graze sheep for wool) with a long tail extending up until the industrialization of the 1870s.
- sgt101 5y agoAlso, in about 1840 a great chunk of the New England colonial population headed west and did more colonization in California.
- foxhop 5y ago
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> they don't talk about raising monolithic walls through out the region. A monolithic wall would be a hell of a feat.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoI'm not watching a 1hr presentation/video. Your quoted math is nonsense. There's ~250k miles of stone wall in New England. Divide by a ~100yr construction period, and you get 2500mi/yr. Average pop was say 1.25mil (I'm underestimating for easy math) over the period so you get 1.25mil person*years per year. The mathematical writing should be on the wall at this point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_England#Population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_England#Po...
- thrower123 5y agoDo you have any conception of how many rocks that you turn up plowing a field in New England? And that's in the places where somebody has been plowing the field for 300 or more years, picking rocks out of it every spring. I don't know where they come from, but there is a never-ending supply... You've got to do something with them.