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Super easy for humans to get around - much better than a forest. If you have canoes, fishtraps, fire and portable shelters as technology then a pretty good envi

by sgt101 2y ago

Super easy for humans to get around - much better than a forest. If you have canoes, fishtraps, fire and portable shelters as technology then a pretty good environment to live in as well. I should imagine that over a period of time people will have simply colonised the whole area and then colonised over into NA rather than migrating to follow game or for some other reason.

willvarfar 2y ago
(just thinking about how when I stomp around in the northern forest, which I do daily, I avoid the swampy bits and stick to the dry bits to avoid getting really stuck in the mud. I can't imagine getting through the swamp with a canoe.)
- ynniv 2y ago
  Canoe in the ocean, camp in the swamp
  - lazide 2y ago
    Small islands/hillocks are even better.
  - sgt101 2y ago
    that's what I think a lot of early humans probably did, shorelines are good places to get food.
- sgt101 2y ago
  My experience of virgin forest is that it's totally impassible - fallen trees and dense understory everywhere - really really difficult to move through, but perhaps I've just got a biased view due to low samples. On the other hand I definitely don't think that humans would have had an easy time going through a swamp - but instead round the edges with access into the land up rivers for trapping and camping.
  - willvarfar 2y ago
    It's true that to move and navigate effectively you have to be super familiar with that style of environment. You have to be planning your route from what you can see no more than a dozens or perhaps a hundred metres ahead. And thick clothes really helps. It clicks when you realise you can just push through a lot of stuff. Its the kind of thing that soldiers get sent on exercise to learn by immersion. Of course the early humans would have been probably as in-tune as the best trackers and bushcraft survival experts today, and hide makes really good clothing.
aaron695 2y ago
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by sgt101 2y ago

willvarfar 2y ago

(just thinking about how when I stomp around in the northern forest, which I do daily, I avoid the swampy bits and stick to the dry bits to avoid getting really stuck in the mud. I can't imagine getting through the swamp with a canoe.)

ynniv 2y ago
Canoe in the ocean, camp in the swamp
- lazide 2y ago
  Small islands/hillocks are even better.
- sgt101 2y ago
  that's what I think a lot of early humans probably did, shorelines are good places to get food.
sgt101 2y ago
My experience of virgin forest is that it's totally impassible - fallen trees and dense understory everywhere - really really difficult to move through, but perhaps I've just got a biased view due to low samples. On the other hand I definitely don't think that humans would have had an easy time going through a swamp - but instead round the edges with access into the land up rivers for trapping and camping.
- willvarfar 2y ago
  It's true that to move and navigate effectively you have to be super familiar with that style of environment. You have to be planning your route from what you can see no more than a dozens or perhaps a hundred metres ahead. And thick clothes really helps. It clicks when you realise you can just push through a lot of stuff. Its the kind of thing that soldiers get sent on exercise to learn by immersion. Of course the early humans would have been probably as in-tune as the best trackers and bushcraft survival experts today, and hide makes really good clothing.

aaron695 2y ago

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