[NatureNS] Neolithic thread to Nova Scotia

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From: Mary Macaulay <Marymacaulay@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:32:00 -0300
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I have found a large root garden divided into bloodroot, ostrich fern segments and a longitudinal pond full on duck potato on one site. But this is nothing to the scale of the canalled wetlands. The canals are a little over knee deep. They are connected by a narrower shallow channel which is bounded by a dyke. The connecting channel is full if brassenia shreberi. Watershield. It seems to prevent the channel from drying out like Saran Wrap. I wonder if this was purposeful?

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Mary (Macaulay)
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> On Aug 19, 2014, at 9:14 AM, Nancy P Dowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What is a duck potato? Tubers from Cattails or Pickerel Weed? We used to boil up something like this we dug along the lakeshore. Do not remember if it tasted good. 
> 
> Nancy
> E Dalhousie, Kings Co. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Aug 19, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Mary Macaulay <Marymacaulay@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This summer I've been exploring some very interesting wetlands between the Wallace and Pugwash rivers. If you do a satellite view google maps you can see at least 4 of them have been significantly canalled. Remarkably so. One has huge parallel canals. Are these preacadian? The native people in this area were known for trading duck potato. Did they farm it? 
>> 
>> With kindest regards
>> Mary (Macaulay)
>> marymacaulay@hotmail.com
>> @maryemacaulay
>> 

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