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Before Humans, Monotype inked print by Kathleen Dalton
The earth is 4,567 million years old
TREES EVOLVED 400 MILLION YEARS AGO
HUMANS EVOLVED 300 MILLION YEARS AGO
WITHOUT THE SHELTER AND OXYGEN PRODUCED BY TREES HUMAN LIFE WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE
FROM THE BEGINNING HUMANS HAVE TURNED TO TREES FOR FOOD, SHELTER, AND FUEL
Pine Forest
charcoal, acrylic, and decayed tree trunk fragments on paper, mounted on canvas by Kelly Slater
HUMAN LIFE BEGAN in AFRICA and THEN GROUPS MIGRATED AROUND THE EARTH
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE HUMANS ARRIVED IN NORTH AMERICA BETWEEN 15,000 AND 23,000 YEARS AGO AND FOUND OAKS, HICKORIES, CHESTNUTS, AND PINES TREES[1]
VAST PINE FORESTS SPREAD ACROSS THE LAND WE NOW CALL MASSACHUSETTS PINE FRAGRANCE COULD BE SMELLED 180 NAUTICAL MILES OFF THE COAST OF NEW ENGLAND..[1]
[1]"The Fertile Shore," Smithsonian Magazine, January 2020, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-humans-came-to-americas-180973739/; See also https://www.discovery.com/science/new-23-000-year-old-human-footprints-discovered-in-america; Richard Hofstadter, America at 1750: A Social Portrait (New York: Vintage Books, 1973), xi.
[1]Native American origin stories tell us that their ancestors were always in the western hemisphere.
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