Native Americans In New England Left “Essentially Invisible” Ecological Signal On Landscape Before European Colonization
Native Americans were in New England for at least 14,000 age , but raw research suggest their " bionomic signal was essentially unseeable , " flip our late narrative about controlled fire burns and offer a potential pattern for good land management in the region . " We were a bit surprised by our results , " lead generator Wyatt Oswald , from Emerson College , told IFLScience . " The mostly accepted view is that , before European colonization of New England , Native Americans cleared forests for agriculture and used fervency to deal the landscape ....