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In geography class in college, the teacher talked about identifying old house locations sites in the Caribbean. I've forgotten the details over the last 30-odd
by dalke 3y ago
In geography class in college, the teacher talked about identifying old house locations sites in the Caribbean. I've forgotten the details over the last 30-odd years, but what they did was look for a place with multiple tree species with edible fruit. The idea was that if you found a small area containing, say, an orange tree, an avocado tree, a mango tree, a guava tree, and a lime tree there was probably someone living there.
(I picked those tree since they were the trees closest to my childhood house in Miami, not because I remember what the teacher said.)
- nisegami 3y agoI'm from the Caribbean and my backyard has orange trees, a mango tree, a guava tree, a lime tree and others (but no avocado tree). So your choices were pretty spot on.
- dalke 3y agoI was cheating about the orange tree. That was the neighbors', whose tree came into our yard and we could get those oranges. They also had banana plants. My grandparents (across the street) had a huge grapefruit tree in their backyard. I was happy when the guava tree blew down in a storm. Bugs got into the fruit so quickly, and I was the one who had to pick them up when I mowed. Yech! Mangos took longer to get to that state. And people would come into the yard to grab newly fallen mangoes, leaving less to deal with. A bit rude to do so without asking, we thought, but we couldn't them all anyway.