Responsible posting — vunerable sites

close
more_vert
BrigantesNation B
BrigantesNation Oct 22, 2005 00:44:52
Replying to BuckyE

Hi Bucky,

We've not spoken before that I recall.

I agree with your suggestion of a "site under threat" banner.

Also, I'm intrigued by your mention of the Native American sites.

I'm trying to get my head round some of them, I'm a new host to a forum caled Native Earthworks Preservation (http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/NEP) anytime you fancy popping across to discuss any of the sites there I'd really appreciate a bit of education. When did prehistory end in the states?

B BuckyE
BuckyE Oct 22, 2005 05:41:27
Replying to BrigantesNation

Hello Brig. I'm a relative newcomer, led here from the Stone Pages. Loie and I have been to a dozen or so Native American sites if we include both rock art and building sites. Well, now, with those on Hawaii, maybe a few dozen! None of them obscure: places like Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. It was a sidelight with us when we first began travelling.

"American" history is usually divided into pre- and post Columbian. Pretty Eurocentric but that was a watershed. North American tribes had painted pictorial histories, but no written ones. So in a sense, "prehistory" ended in North America with European contact.

Ideographic "writing" on stone may have been begun as early as 500 BCE in MesoAmerica, and paper came along sometime later.

Do we need a thread on your American site?