The 12,000 year old road of Vermont: Part 3 

My brother and i log in Northern VT and i think there are pre farmer stone piles on the wood lots we are working on now

First European settlers used mainly tree stumps and wood fences as borders. The first settlers only built stone walls after erosion in their fields from agriculture and deforestation started producing rocky soil from glacial rubble. That began in the early 1800s. Settlers likely used some of the stone walls of indigenous peoples that already existed as well.

Am European, but my bestest American buddy is from Vermont. So ty for this vid. Shoutout to my boy Anthony, the best M&B Warband clan officer in Napoleonic Wars

Rather good geology lesson! Most people do not realise that the weight of the ice sheet depressed the surface, and that the land took centuries to rebound. In fact, portions of Northern Europe are still rising from the weight of the glaciers. In your videos you talk about the wave of plagues and diseases that ravaged the native American peoples. There were similar plagues and epidemics among the tribes of the great plains and southern tribes, and presumably the Western Indian tribes as well. The Europeans were very lucky to have been in intermittent contact with various peoples from Asia and Africa, and had apparently built up a degree of immunity to most diseases that the American Indians had not, for the "Black Death" is estimated to have killed a third of the European population and to have been introduced from Central Asia. So Europeans were also susceptible to decimating epidemics, but not on the scale of what apparently befell the Native American population. Still, there is evidence that a particularly virulent form of syphilis traveled from the Caribbean to Europe, so it was not all a one way transfer of disease. I like your channel, I am not sure I agree with all your arguments, but I can't disagree with most of them either. I do agree with your premise of a "road" long used by native Americans existed, just not sure I would put it quite that far back! I think the native population was too small that long ago for regular travel on a scale that could be called a road. Obviously, that is a subjective opinion. By six or seven thousand years ago, I think it quite possible. Time will tell. There is increasing archeological evidence being discovered all the time, and you may well prove right! I will keep an open mind! In the meantime, you are exposing me to new information and reignited an old interest in precolumbian Native American history. I look forward for more.

Just wish locations were identified so we could visit and see for ourselves these walls, effigies and chambers.

The very same type of Ceremonial Stone Landscapes also exist down in the Catskill Mountains in NY. The stone piles are very distinct. They're usually, but not always, on top of boulders. One site I discovered has many dozens, spread out in a small area, apparently of different ages and state of condition. They would have had to carry that amount of stones in. These stone piles are absolutely not from farmers clearing land. I think any farmer visiting a site would agree. Is there any record of European settlers finding Ceremonial Stone Landscapes? I wonder who first discovered them. It does have a graveyard feel. Perhaps whomever ended up owning the land realized that and left them alone. To me, that's the mystery: how did we not demolish these sites?

Or perhaps it was the dried up perquinuck river… or union canal… who knows

I watched parts 1,2,3. Great series. Really well done, well researched and nice visuals. An important contribution to the field. I strongly believe we need to replace the English names of mountains, rivers, etc to their original indigenous names to Honor and Remember the people who lived here before the European invasion of the 17th century... fortunately we have a few names, but more are needed. In particular I'd like to see the Charles River (E. Mass.) changed to the original indigenous name - the Quinobequin.