What you describe is a distinctly Euro-centric, imperial viewpoint. However 80,000 years of original caretaker habitation demonstrates that indeed, stasis with

What you describe is a distinctly Euro-centric, imperial viewpoint. However 80,000 years of original caretaker habitation demonstrates that indeed, stasis with the landscape is attainable. They took far better care of the land than we do, and they lived in multiple eras of plenty and prosperity. Scientifically demonstrable, even.