Today, think of our populace like a railroad: over 90% of Canadians live along a 4,000-mile east-west railroad, ~120 miles wide. Greater than 50% live in the East, south of the (orange line) ~45o latitude shown. Compare the north-south Cascadia Floristic Region’s corridor 2,000 miles long, even narrower – averaging 50 miles wide (water being the historic means of transportation before the I-5). In the 5,000 years before the time of Moses, sea-level was 300 – 400 feet lower than today. The Cascadia Floristic Region corridor’s coastline has steadily crept eastward, burying indigenous settlements below corrosive salt waters. Elsewhere as glaciers melted, cold fresh water also created freshwater lakes leaving a few
clues, like Lake Huron’s flooded Stone Age herding structures, 9,000 years old cited below. “Stone Age” is not derogatory, it captures the period for the type of tools used between 2.5 million (perhaps 25,000 for homo sapiens) and 6,000 years ago. This period ended at different times in different places in the World; followed by a Bronze and Iron Ages (Europe’s ending ~ 1,200 BC and 550 BC respectively). Evidence suggests that Northwest Coast Cultures were entering the Bronze Age (Tlingit copper from Copper River), when the NW era of European Explorers and Exploitation began (1774). Explorers came and went. Exploiters: trapping, mining, and fishing also disappeared as resources or species-renewal levels were breached. Logging will continue until hillsides’ soils disappear; money always flowing east, our soils flowing west.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0341816216300698
https://study.com/learn/lesson/european-stone-age-civilizations-cultures.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/04/28/hunting-camp-lake-huron/8113975/
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/metallurgy-of-the-tlingit-dene-and-eskimo/
https://www.academia.edu/6932789/The_Copper_Age_on_the_Northwest_Coast_Early_Indigenous_Metallurgy
Tlingits had mastered copper metallurgy before the arrival of explorers using nuggets as large as boulders from what river?
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