Hidden beneath Michigan’s forests, researchers have uncovered vast ancient farmlands built by ancestral Menominee communities, revealing a complex agricultural system. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with its cold weather, brief growing season, and thick forests, has long been considered an unlikely
  • grue@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    That Defy the Limits of Agriculture

    [X] doubt

    Defy the researchers’ liberal biases about the size limits of an egalitarian society, more like:

    “When you look at the scale of farming, this would require the kind of labor organization that is typically associated with a much larger, state-level hierarchical society,” says McLeester. “Yet, everything we know about this area suggests smaller egalitarian societies lived in this region, but in fact, this may have been a rather large settlement.”

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      “But why would people want to do feed their community without a profit motive?” - people telling on themselves just as much as when they ask why someone would behave ethically without the threat of hell.