{"id":1685,"date":"2010-04-28T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2010-04-28T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:02:48","slug":"nature-and-history-in-the-potomac-country-from-hunter-gatherers-to-the-age-of-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2010\/04\/nature-and-history-in-the-potomac-country-from-hunter-gatherers-to-the-age-of-jefferson\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter- Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2129\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/naturehistory_ld\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/NatureHistory_ld.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"255,400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NatureHistory_ld\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/NatureHistory_ld-191x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/NatureHistory_ld.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2129\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2010\/04\/NatureHistory_ld-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"NatureHistory_ld\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/NatureHistory_ld-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/NatureHistory_ld.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/>by<strong> James Rice \u201985<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This study of the Potomac River basin opens with a mystery: Why, when the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly threequarters of the area uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice uses archaeological and anthropological research, as well as scholarship on farming practices at the time, to arrive at the answer. The book\u2019s acknowledgements salute Rice\u2019s CC advisor T.K. Barton P\u201992, \u201cwho loved the English language and books and who never hesitated to identify stylistic \u2018barbarisms\u2019 when they crept into my prose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ISBN-13: 978-0801890321. Johns Hopkins University Press; 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by James Rice \u201985 This study of the Potomac River basin opens with a mystery: Why, when the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly threequarters of the area uninhabited on the eve of colonization? 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