Old history 👴🏻

It seems like a lot of historic sites are oriented either towards long ago military battles or colonial farm times, as somehow something long before our times is more relevant and useful then what came a generation or two before. Maybe because people are still alive and remember the way things were, such history seems irrelevant. After all, the broken artifacts of such history are found in trash piles everywhere, soon enough to be smashed and hauled to the local dumping grounds.

It’s not to say some of the primative technologies of yesteryear aren’t worth exploring especially ok the homestead, discovering potentially lost and beneficial knowledge of how to better manage the land in a sustainable way. That said, science and materials have come a long ways from then and just because something was done a certain way a long time ago doesn’t mean it’s a good thing. Much of the historic obsession over the ways of the colonial and native people doesn’t necessarily seem to benefit us as a society – as much as understanding the reasons and technologies, even if flawed, that a generation or two ago adopted.