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Friday, November 3. 2017

Reviewing "I, Pencil"

Reposted,  a fresh look at "I, Pencil."



 Read shows that none of us knows enough to plan the creative actions and decisions of others.



We recall that American Indians had traded clam shells from Long Island (NY) for obsidian from the Dakotas. Free trade. I once saw that somebody tracked the pre-Columbian Indian trade routes across the Americas. I can't find it now.


" My family tree begins with what in fact is a tree, a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon...."


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We recall that American Indians had traded clam shells from Long Island (NY) for obsidian from the Dakotas. Free trade. I once saw that somebody tracked the pre-Columbian Indian trade routes across the Americas. I can't find it now.
Most likely Charles Mann's 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Hopewell itself declined around 400 A.D. But its trade network remained intact. Shell beads from Florida, obsidian from the Rocky Mountains, and mica from Tennessee found their way to the Northeast. Borrowing technology and ideas from the Midwest, the nomadic peoples of New England transformed their societies. By the end of the first millennium A.D., agriculture was spreading rapidly and the region was becoming an unusual patchwork of communities, each with its preferred terrain, way of subsistence, and cultural style.
(Ch 2, Why Billington Survived)

I left out the Amazon link to the book in the hope of fooling the blankety-blank spam stopper at MF. As spamware blocked my comment as Gringo, I post as AnnoyedCommenter.
#1 AnnyoyedCommenter on 2017-11-03 17:09 (Reply)
I read the book, as have many Maggie's readers. Wonderful stuff.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2017-11-03 17:53 (Reply)

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