Comment by firesteelrain
1 day ago
It’s amazing how smart our ancestors were and creative and observant based on amateur science and gardening skills. The amount of planning and organization this must have taken would require a large coordinated effort.
But a farmer is a professional scientist and a professional gardener. Living 1k years ago did not make them uninformed or unskilled at their profession. It's quite a modern bias to suggest this is amateur.
My use of ‘amateur’ was more about how their methods predate formal scientific institutions rather than diminishing their expertise.
"Stuff grows good in this black muck, but floods here and is hard to work in. Let's bring some of it up closer to the camp."