15 July 2008

Precontact Manhattan


For Ira and other friends "out East," here is a link to the "Mannahatta Project," which is attempting to reconstruct what the island of Manhattan looked like and what its ecology was before Europeans arrived.

The New Yorker has some relevant ancient maps, including the image above, which depicts the original Mannahatta peninsula juxtaposed with an outline of today's topography.

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